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Afterlives
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Afiya was now no longer a girl but a kijana, a maiden, and beginning to understand the endless resentments that were part of the sequestered lives of women.
“It was important that Uncharles have tasks to do, and that he did them, and then that they were done. That was the purpose of existence.”
― Service Model
― Service Model
“Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work—this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can’t be found. Instead, it’s just one interruption after another.”
― Remote: Office Not Required
― Remote: Office Not Required
“The big transition with a distributed workforce is going from synchronous to asynchronous collaboration”
― Remote: Office Not Required
― Remote: Office Not Required
“People choose school to: Get into “their best” school Do what's expected of them Get away Step it up Extend themselves”
― Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life
― Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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