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“Banks are institutions to which the government has granted the power to create money—or,”
― The Utopia of Rules
― The Utopia of Rules
“After all, as we’re constantly reminded, the Internet has unleashed all sorts of creative vision and collaborative ingenuity. What it has really brought about is a kind of bizarre inversion of ends and means, where creativity is marshaled to the service of administration rather than the other way around.”
― The Utopia of Rules
― The Utopia of Rules
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
― The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
― The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
“Just as the invention of new forms of industrial automation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had the paradoxical effect of turning more and more of the world’s population into full-time industrial workers, so has all the software designed to save us from administrative responsibilities in recent decades ultimately turned us all into part or full-time administrators.”
― The Utopia of Rules
― The Utopia of Rules
Julie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Julie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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16 friends
103 books
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503 books
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398 books
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408 books
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1 book
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