Why I Live in a Desert

 

One to Study

 

At an incoherent company, employees stop believing that what they joined to do is possible. As that belief erodes, cynicism takes root. Passion drains away, replaced by quiet quitting and mediocre work. The best talent leaves for companies whose values they can believe it, while those who stay stop caring about the customers they serve or the products they build. The "values" become a residue of past aspirations, orphaned on the walls. Those cynical comments over dinner? They're not just venting but symptoms of an organization eating itself alive.

- From Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad...and How Great Companies Stay Great by Eric Ries

Justifiable European Bashing

 

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 During the last days of the Western Roman Empire and throughout the Middle Ages, Western Europe was threatened, and often invaded, by outsiders. First came the Huns, then the Arabs, then the Magyars, then the Vikings, then the Mongols, and then the Turks. Each in turn, they were described as ferocious warriors none could withstand. Each in turn, their hordes inflicted immense bloodshed, destruction, and suffering on a continent rendered almost defenseless by the prevailing socio-economic--political structures and the internecine struggles to which it led.

- From Pussycats: Why the Rest Keep Beating the West and What Can Be Done About It by Martin Van Creveld

The Great Feminization

 

Content Creation Major

Arizona State University now permits students to major in Content Creation; i.e. becoming an influencer.

I look forward to following the story.

In the Stack

 

Find Something Beautiful Today

 

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On My List

 

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 The noise was ended now. The smoke drifted like thin, gray wisps of fog above the tortured earth and the shattered fences and the peach trees that had been whittled into toothpicks by the cannon fire. For a moment silence, if not peace, fell upon those few square miles of ground where just a while before men had screamed and torn at one another in the frenzy of old hate and had contended in an ancient striving and then had fallen apart, exhausted.

- From Way Station by Clifford D. Simak