The Tyranny of Convenience
From the New York Times: Convenience is the most underestimated and least understood force in the world today. As a driver of human decisions, it may not offer the illicit…
In Montana, Governor Bullock Signs Order to Enforce Net Neutrality
From the New York Times: Most efforts underway to restore so-called net neutralityface big obstacles and would take many months, if not years, to succeed. But in Montana, the governor…
Strategies to Manage Your Career: From Networking to Balancing Work and Life
From the New York Times Business Section: There is no shortage of books claiming to reveal the secret truth behind successful careers. Then there are all the podcasts, TED talks,…
LA Times Newsroom Votes on Whether to Unionize, Tronc tries to suppress it
Here is an object lesson in why workers at the LA Times newsroom voted to unionize. Below is the “story” that appears in the LA Times about this historically significant…
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Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From New York Times: From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming…
Will Robots Take Our Children’s Jobs?
From today’s New York Times: Like a lot of children, my sons, Toby, 7, and Anton, 4, are obsessed with robots. In the children’s books they devour at bedtime, happy,…
Work Productivity: Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting.
From today’s New York Times by Susan Dynarski: Step into any college lecture hall and you are likely to find a sea of students typing away at open, glowing laptops…
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We’re With Stupid: On Fake News and the Literacy of America’s Electorate
From New York Times by Timothy Egan (Nov. 17, 2017): It would be much easier to sleep at night if you could believe that we’re in such a mess of…
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Employees do want their job to matter, but meaning at work can be hard to find
From today’s Chicago Tribune by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz: Jennifer Ruiz holds her patient’s trembling hand as she presses a stethoscope to the frail woman’s chest and belly. She compliments the woman…
WeWork and the Death of Leisure
From today’s New York Times “Opinion” by Ginia Bellafante This past week, Hudson’s Bay, whose story begins 347 years ago in the fur trade, making it the oldest company in…