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Ben Kohlmann Ben wrote an essay for a military news site. He explained his frustration and challenged the Navy to start supporting and promoting junior people with disruptive ideas.
Adam Grant • The creative power of misfits
He calls this the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” which can slow us down when it means bosses give us fewer responsibilities with lower upside.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
How Tyler Cowen—Superstar Blogger and Economics Professor—Writes Every Single Day - Writing Routines
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The recent obsession with identity has allowed journalists to pretend—indeed to believe—they are still speaking truth to power, still fighting on behalf of the little guy, even after they have themselves ascended to the ranks of the powerful, even when they are speaking down to an audience who, in more cases than not, have less than them on every m... See more
Batya Ungar-Sargon • Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
Platforms like Substack have enabled the best journalists to leave their job, but it’s also put writers on a hamster wheel with a weekly publishing cadence, where they may be making less than they thought.
Richard Patey • Why Creators Should Choose Protocols Over Subscriptions
While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (I told you... See more
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Beyond the Link Tax: Journalism and the Changing Nature of the Internet
Philip Moscovitchhalifaxexaminer.caWe’ve recently had this big debate over whether or not college loans should be forgiven. The conversation has all been around “is it fair to burden kids with so much debt or is it fair to effectively punish the people who repaid their loans?” I think both of those are besides the point. The real issue is that the value proposition of going to coll
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