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Beauty may look like a route to get ahead for women, but, in fact, beauty is worth more in men’s hands than in women’s own.
Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
The death of the public intellectual
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The Managed Heart: Emotional Labor and the Psychological Cost of Ambivalence
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I've seen much of what hedge funds and the sell-side buy wrt data on internet companies and it's mostly bad.
The best way to understand internet company usage patterns is looking at what female enterprise sales reps are wearing over time.
Earlier this week, I went to a new(?) conference... See more
. Prior to Cameo being founded in 2017, it would have been strange for celebrities to charge fans for personalized shout-out videos, but Cameo normalized this type of paid interaction—and anticipates $100M in bookings this year.
Li Jin • Unbundling Work from Employment
What finer characteristics could a system like capitalism seek in a worker?