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When returns to violence are high and rising, magnitude means more than efficiency. Larger entities tend to prevail over smaller ones.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
As the monopoly on violence enjoyed by the “bigger battalions” breaks down, one of the first results to be expected is increasing prosperity for organized crime. Organized crime, after all, provides the main competition to nation-states in employing violence for predatory purposes. Although it is impolite to say so, it should not be forgotten, as p
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
virtually everyone in the United States and everywhere in the wired-up world knew Google.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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Gavin de Becker • The Gift of Fear
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele as well as the article “The Matter of Black Lives” by Jelani Cobb, published in the New Yorker.
Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
many of the partners felt like they could only make suggestions and hope that Adam listened.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
The proposal is bound to sound odd or frightening or laughable. This is partly because until the rightless thing receives its rights, we cannot see it as anything but a thing for the use of “us”—those who are holding rights at the time.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Reputation became a kind of compensation.