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"It's not about coddling people or boosting their egos. It's about reflecting to them the reality of their actions with the same sharpness we use to point out where they fell short."
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PwC is one of the few companies to publicly release its diversity data. What was behind that choice? One of my aspirations early in my tenure was that I wanted to be transparent. I think we’re going through a golden age of transparency, and you need to lead by
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Critias (l. c. 460-403 BCE) was an Athenian politician, poet, and playwright, and one of Socrates' followers: "It's terrible when someone who's stupid thinks he's intelligent. δεινὸν δ’ ὅταν τις μὴ φρονῶν δοκῇ φρονεῖν." (h/t) "those with limited
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Simon Sarris on careful technology: If people hate technology and think it clashes with nature, I find it hard to blame technology. We have careless technology because we are careless in evaluating it. We demand too little of it, or we are willing to sacrifice too much for too little
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Issue 65
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Alison Gopnik [bolds are mine]: A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions. We have been doing this for as long as we’ve been human. Language itself you
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Note that five of these top six countries have some of the highest personal income taxes in the world. Source: Lu, Marcus. “Where Unemployment Benefits Are the Highest, in OECD Countries.” Visual Capitalist, 17 June 2024, www.visualcapitalist.com/unemployment-benefits-in-oecd-countries/. Accessed 18 June 2024.
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Simon Sarris: A benefit of prioritizing creation and then sharing it is that you might inspire others along with yourself. And if you are creating while learning in public, you may find others who come along and help you.
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Un achat compulsif à l'aéroport de Montréal. Je l'ai lu d'un seul trait. La prose et le contenu sont sans prétention. Une anecdote après l'autre, sans aucun plan de rédaction particulier. On y reconnaît Jean Chrétien: intelligent, vaillant et souvent pince-sans-