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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard • 10 highlights
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Some of the others were supporters of the public interest, monitoring the privacy rights and pocketbooks of citizens.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis. Positive psychology—at least, as applied so broadly and unquestioningly to corporate relations—is a quack science. It throws a smokescreen over corporate domination, abuse, and greed. Those who preach it serve the corporate leviathan. They are awash in corporate grants. T
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
The fundamental challenge twentieth-century organizations face in the twenty-first is uselessness: an inability to add to the Common Wealth.
Umair Haque • Betterness: Economics for Humans (Kindle Single)
When we are called upon to manage or produce emotional states as part of our jobs, the expectation that our personality is also raw material is entrenched.
Amelia Horgan • Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
The corporate hierarchy that has corrupted higher education is on public display at Berkeley. The wealthiest of the elite schools, such as Yale and Stanford, assign dormitories by lottery. They treat their students with a careful egalitarianism, expecting all to enter the elite. Berkeley and many other public universities, however, assign rooms dep
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
but eventually the thought dawned on me that information wasn’t just raw material to