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Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who were being pushed by their venture investors to find an “adult” to serve as CEO of a young search-engine company, Google.
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
PBOD (Personal Board of Directors)
Jessica Bennett • Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
When the figure of the buffoon becomes central to public life, the problem is not only that they say foolish things but also that everything they touch becomes foolish, including—especially—the powerful language we need to talk about them and what they are doing.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
But this internecine internet feud is eclipsed, in Lorenz’s reporting, by a shadow thesis of which she seems largely unaware: that the engine for this corporate revolution—this rerouting of business models and marketing campaigns from “connection” to “content creation”—has consistently been white women. White women producers (as mommy bloggers, My... See more
Anna Shechtman • Life in the Algorithm
“Rude Boy”
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
trolls reveal the thin and at times nonexistent line between trolling and sensationalist corporate media.
Whitney Phillips • This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
- Smart Brevity is contagious.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
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Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
McInerney’s big job now is acting as a custodian for the statue of himself that celebrity has