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In short, the idea of personal branding began as a ruse—a transparent sop being pitched in lieu of actual jobs or a stable income by companies and their management consultants, drunk on the cost savings and stock-price inflation born of sweeping downsizing and outsourcing.
I just sat there, slumped like a limp bag of meat and bones, while I tried to hold on to any sense of purpose.
The Stone Man - A Science Fiction Thriller
Luke Smitherd
Anil Dash, a tech entrepreneur and blogging pioneer who worked at SixApart, the company that developed the blog software Movable Type, remembers a backlash when his company started charging for its services in the mid-’00s. “People were like, ‘You’re charging money for something on the internet? That’s disgusting!’” he told MIT Technology Review. “The shift from that to, like, *If you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product …* I think if we had come up with that phrase sooner, then the whole thing would have been different. The whole social media era would have been different.”
How to Fix the Internet | MIT Technology Review
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