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Mark Zuckerberg’s year of books: Peter Huber’s Orwell’s Revenge review

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by on May 24, 2015 at 9:54 am
Posted In: Around the Web, book review, Insider, Mark Zuckerberg, year of books

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Mark Zuckerberg’s 9th pick for his Year of Books is Peter Huber’s Orwell’s Revenge, a response to George Orwell’s classic, 1984, which defends the free market and defends modern technology’s benevolence. WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. THE MACHINES ARE COMING TO GET YOU. So read the slogans of the totalitarian Party of George Orwell’s novel 1984. Well. All but that last one. Even if the machines are coming to get you isn’t one of the writings on the wall in Orwell’s classic, machines and their suppression of all that is passionately human is a significant focus…

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50 email newsletters you need to know about

May23
by on May 23, 2015 at 7:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, guide, LifeHacks, list, newsletters

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While email consistently gets a bad rap for being a productivity killer, we beg to differ. Below you’ll find a list of the 50 newsletters that we look forward to getting every week in our inbox. News ReadThisThing One fantastic piece of journalism each weekday. (This is a shameless plug — we’re the ones who made this list). Politico Playbook “Veteran journalist Mike Allen combs the Internet, TV and newspapers to cook up a hearty dish of whats happening in politics.” The Skimm “TheSkimm is the daily e-mail newsletter that gives you everything you need to start your day. We do the reading…

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Change ‘we’ to ‘I’

May23
by on May 23, 2015 at 5:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Recently I had an interesting conversation with someone who works at a bigger company. We spoke about inefficiencies at different levels, and how to get shit done. He said something that made an impression: “Change ‘we’ or ‘us’ to ‘I’ as much as possible, and force others to do the same. It is very easy to say ‘Shouldn’t we be doing this’ but it won’t change things. But, if you change that to ‘Shouldn’t I do this’ then things become much more tangible.” He was talking about big companies, but it applies to small companies as well. End your discussions…

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