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Fuller blames this thinning on two factors. First, extreme partnership has led to “an intense focus” on specific political outcomes, rather than developing better democratic processes. Second, large private foundations and governments are putting money into their own agendas, rather than tools to empower everyday citizens.

In Online Democracy, Fun Is Imperative

organizations increasingly unable to achieve the purpose for which they were created, yet continuing to expand as they devour resources, demean the human spirit, and destroy the environment

Dee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…

The prescription is clear: Discuss at the earliest possible point all potential roadblocks, detours, and contingencies that may arise, and make it clear how your firm will handle them.

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

the best form of governance in an expertise-based practice area would fit the traditional professional mold: a collegial partnership of peers headed (if at all) by a leader who symbolizes the firm’s commitment to high standards.

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

the reason so many of them are so unhappy – despite being generally very well paid – is the convention of the ‘billable hour’, which obliges them to treat their time, and thus really themselves, as a commodity to be sold off in sixty-minute chunks to clients. An hour not sold is automatically an hour wasted. So when an outwardly successful,

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks

Why Strauss thinks something “critical” is lost

1. Moral content is emptied out. If the law is only a fence around private desires, it cannot speak authoritatively about better or worse ways of living.

2. Civic virtue withers. Citizens are turned into clients of the sovereign, focused on individual gain, not on common deliberation.

3. Natural right is... See more

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At its inception between the 1960s and 1990s, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a collection of walled gardens, a hierarchical ecosystem ruled by a few gatekeepers who leverage access to data, attention and infrastructural capability to enclose users and... See more

Ethan Mollick • Article

crisis of government in

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

The younger lawyer was named Marcus, he was from Shaker Heights, he had attended Penn, where he had majored in philosophy and lettered in rowing. After a stint working in a rural Mississippi town with Teach for America, he had gone on to Stanford Law School. He had a lovely wife of Korean ancestry and a six-month-old baby and was just days away

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In Online Democracy, Fun Is Imperative

Dee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks

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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Neal Stephenson • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel