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Dating websites were flooded with milquetoast strivers who earnestly listed business-management guides among their favorite books and arrived at dinner wearing backpacks stamped with the names of their employers. Young CEOs were showing up to sex parties expecting to play only with other young CEOs. My friends, covered in glitter and wearing tiny
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Jenny (Phire) Zhang • left alone, together
But from the beginning, the Internet’s design distributed power and resources to those at the “ends” of the network, that is, those on the network, as opposed to the owner of the network itself. It was, in its way, a modest design that relied on the passive virtues of connection and empowering others.
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Diana Ransom • inc.com
Hierarchies were being flattened, so a small company or a freelancer could compete with…
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