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“We have become a civilization based on work—not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself. We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care, or assistance from their communities. It is as if we have collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“If leaders don’t articulate their priorities clearly, then the people around them don’t know what their own priorities should be. Time and energy and capital get wasted.”
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
“Sometimes bar charts are avoided because they are common. This is a mistake. Rather, bar charts should be leveraged because they are common, as this means less of a learning curve for your audience.”
― Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
― Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
“Bauman argues that most people “slip” into the roles society provides them, and he is very critical of any implication that “faulty personalities” are the cause of human cruelty. For him the exception—the real “sleeper”—is the rare individual who has the capacity to resist authority and assert moral autonomy but who is seldom aware of this hidden strength until put to the test.”
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
“The west’s growing preoccupation with China is not surprising, for a new Chinese network is in the process of being built that extends across the globe. As late as the middle of the twentieth century, it was possible to sail from Southampton, London or Liverpool to the other side of the world without leaving British territory, putting in at Gibraltar and then Malta before Port Said; from there to Aden, Bombay and Colombo, pausing in the Malay peninsula and finally reaching Hong Kong. Today, it is the Chinese who can do something similar.”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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