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These actions reflect my concern about how the treatment of certain Morton Thiokol employees, particularly Mr. McDonald and Mr. Boisjoly, will adversely affect the future of the Space Shuttle program. Any failure to maintain an atmosphere of support for objective scientific inquiry and honest criticism will decrease safety at a time when improved
... See moreAllan J. McDonald • Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Due to the absence of a reasonable and healthy relationship of participatory cooperation between the capitalist [creditor] and the entrepreneur [debtor], the global economy suffers tremendously and faces alternative highs and lows that adversely affect the world’s economic health.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
I wrote a whole article on this and how fundamental it is for those institutions that convene spaces... See more
Management as a locust plague


Sure, all missions are inherently patronizing to the host culture. That’s what a mission is—a bunch of strangers showing up somewhere uninvited to inform the locals they are wrong.
Sarah Vowell • Unfamiliar Fishes

Colonialism has fundamentally altered our relationships with the web of life, and we are all living with its consequences. When Europe began its pillage of the Western Hemisphere in 1492, Indigenous cosmologies of reciprocity, relationships with and duties of care for water, land, and living beings were uprooted, replaced with a worldview animated
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