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Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Historian Albert L. Hurtado describes the impact of Sutter on the region, in particular the bell he used to summon Indians to work: Sutter’s bell heralded the arrival of a modern sense of time in the Sacramento Valley… Now, for at least part of their lives, some Indians were wedded to a concept that proclaimed that time was limited and that it had
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represented a significant realignment of workplace practices. It also foreshadows a massive realignment in textual practice.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
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Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
Mack Hagood • Fidelity Angst — Real Life
However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for ever
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