Society

A conversation about the “mediocre monopolists” of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the real lessons of science fiction.

Red states refuse to play by the same rules as blue states.

There are fewer films now that allow an actor to grow a persona and a Tom Cruise level of stardom. It’s a crisis, and the movies know it.

You can make a thing so perfect that it’s ruined.

What America and the world can learn from the Faroe Islands.

Why are so few women in management positions? The popular explanations range from women just aren’t capable of being leaders to women just don’t want to be leaders. According to the author, however, the absence of women in leadership roles has less to do with women themselves and more to do with how we interpret leadership traits. Confidence – a trait more associated with men – is often misinterpreted as competence. As a result, charismatic, but incompetent men have fewer barriers to reach the top than women. Individuals in positions to promote and hire managers should think more critically about what seems like a leadership trait versus what is an actual leadership trait. They will find that arrogance and overconfidence – the characteristics that get men into management positions – are also the characteristics that cause poor performance.

These indicators are mostly for travel and entertainment.    It was interesting to watch these sectors recover as the pandemic impact subsid...

The electric sci-fi dreams of my youth became the reality of my adulthood.

What America and the world can learn from the Faroe Islands

Posted on Wednesday 30 Nov 2022. 744 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.

The good news: there’s more than $50 billion in broadband subsidies coming down the road courtesy of COVID relief and infrastructure legislation. The bad news: monopoly ISPs are working overt…

Can performance reviews really do the trick?

Starting in February 2022, Four Day Week Global (4DWG) initiated trials with dozens of companies and hundreds of employees across the US, Ireland and a few other...

Culture shifts. But it’s held in place by norms, and those are driven by status and affiliation. No one actually needs a car that can accelerate one second faster than most other cars. But ha…

Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.

When you do not give me money, that is censorship.

To get America back to work and boost profits, the Koch network and other right-wing money groups have long pushed to return to pre-pandemic schooling.

Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe

If you were a teenager (or slightly older) in the eighties, there is a good chance you tried out Calvin Klein cologne. It was quite the thing — it was everywhere, so much so that you couldn’t…

Musk: Apple threatened to pull Twitter from iOS and "mostly stopped advertising."