Rick

“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. —SAVIELLY TARTAKOWER, Polish Grandmaster”
― Katherine Neville, The Fire

“It’s almost impossible to learn what we aren’t aware that we don’t know.”
― E.J. Lowell, Salt

“the Spanish coat of arms—a crest flanked by the Pillars of Hercules and the ancient motto PLUS ULTRA, meaning “further beyond.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Contract nurses used to find work through regional nurse staffing agencies. There were several of these competing in each market. However, with the rise of app-based “Uber for nursing” digital hiring tools, the regional staffing agencies have given way to a cartel of four nurse-hiring apps: CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey, and ShiftMed. In Wells and Spilda’s report, they describe how these apps buy nurses’ credit history from data brokers before offering them a shift, and then reduce the wage on offer for nurses with a lot of credit-card debt. Those nurses, after all, are more economically desperate and thus likely to accept a lower wage.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late