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These disparate findings leave some questions unanswered. “How on earth can you get a more than 30 point spread between them?” Mr. Bloom asked. “It all comes down to how workers are managed. If you set up fully remote with good management and incentives, and people are meeting in person, it can work. What doesn’t seem to work is sending people home with no face-time at all.”
What We Know About the Effects of Remote Work - The New York Times
Emma Goldberg
Freedom from your grievance-focused thinking becomes possible when you discover that your internal fight with reality has not and is not going to change it. When you stop living in a state of aggression with the way things are—bracing against what is—you discover acceptance and a different level of peace. It doesn’t mean that you should stop trying to change life when it’s not to your liking, but it does mean that you choose to stop fighting against the fact that life is the way it is right now—this is reality, like it or not.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
It’s a book-length case that intellectual inequality is demonstrably innate, therefore merit is a lie, therefore socialism is good. And of course, I agree that “merit” is a lie and socialism is good but since the first point is false for very clear reasons, those “therefores” never get to carry us logically to the egalitarian utopia.
We Don’t Know Our Potential ❧ Current Affairs
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