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The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it
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People still worry that not enough girls study STEM subjects, and many secretly suspect that girls’ brains just aren’t cut out for maths and science. But there is surprisingly little angst about the consistent underperformance of boys in
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“I've never really thought about a legacy. But for the last century it sounds like I was basically a bully with low blood sugar.”
― Screw The Galaxy
― Screw The Galaxy
“If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you’ll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.”
― The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
― The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
“The more novels you read, the better you were at reading other people’s emotions. It was a huge effect. This wasn’t just a sign that you were better educated—because reading nonfiction books, by contrast, had no effect on your empathy.”
― Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
― Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
“Yet despite claiming to not know where the boundary is when it comes to hate speech, Zuckerberg has repeatedly claimed it ‘has no place on Facebook’.24”
― Troll Hunting: Inside the world of online hate and its human fallout
― Troll Hunting: Inside the world of online hate and its human fallout
“. . . it's dangerous to fool yourself into believing the online world is 'virtual' and the person behind the keyboard can't inflict real-life harm.”
― Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and its Human Fallout
― Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and its Human Fallout
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