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Anyone who has built a career on managing document-management systems can hardly welcome the claim that documents themselves are the problem. Anyone who has edited Word documents all their working life can hardly welcome the thought that Word itself is a blind spot.
Information Autonomy
Martijn Aslander
Managers existed because coordination was expensive. As coordination becomes cheaper, the relative value of management declines.
The End of the Managerial Age
Richard Vigilante
A recent study by Vlad Chituc, a doctoral student in psychology at Yale, found that people tend to dislike vegans because they give the impression of thinking that they are morally superior. Vegans can defuse this reaction, however, if they say they are avoiding animal products for health reasons rather than ethical ones. So next time the subject comes up with a new acquaintance, try emphasizing this aspect of your diet, at least to begin with.
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