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Robin Good

@robingood

The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.

In product development, if something doesn’t work, you get rid of it. I realized we could apply that same principle to managing people.

Patty McCord • Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

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A PR agent from Burson-Marsteller reached out to a tech blogger named Christopher Soghoian and asked him to write a critical op-ed about a Google product. Recounting the story Soghoian says Burson-Marsteller offered to “draft” the op-ed for Soghoian and get it published in a “top-tier” outlet like the Washington Post, Politico, the Hill, Roll Call,

Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

While Mr. Goldhaber said he wanted to remain hopeful, he was deeply concerned about whether the attention economy and a healthy democracy can coexist. Nuanced policy discussions, he said, will almost certainly get simplified into “meaningless slogans” in order to travel farther online, and politicians will continue to stake out more extreme positio... See more

nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times

ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up

Philip Greenspun random.waxy.org

Sari Azout | Substack

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Under Schmidt’s new orders, YouTube began slapping more commercials on the site and hiring more “monetization” engineers. Walk once greeted one tartly, “What are you doing to ruin my user experience today?”

Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe

By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made. We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose extract