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Opinion | The Future of Nonconformity (Published 2020)
Companies respect conformity and uniformity, but they fail to see how limiting both are.
Ricardo Semler • The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
I think today the variance of weirdness is increasing. Conformists can conform like never before, due say to social media and the Girardian desire to mimic others. But unusual people can connect with other unusual people, and make each other much weirder and more "niche." For instance, every possible variant of political views seems to be "out ther... See more
Noah Smith • Interview: Tyler Cowen, economist and public intellectual
consensus can close off a subject from inquiry,” which may be the most important point of all. The more useful a term is for marking my inclusion in a group, the less interested I will be in testing the validity of my use of that term against—well, against any kind of standard.