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A key lesson of crypto is: A bunch of people can get together online and make their community have economic value, and then capture that value for themselves. If you explain the mechanism for that, it sounds even worse.
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
bloomberg.com
I read it not so much for what the author meant to say as for what the text incidentally or unintentionally reveals.
Keith Thomas · Diary: Working Methods · LRB 10 June 2010
lrb.co.uk
It places Goffman’s arts of impression management—the friendliness of a saleswoman’s voice, the elegance of a teacher’s gesture, the charisma of an executive’s presentation—at the heart of productivity. Arlie Russell Hochschild, in her 1983 book “The Managed Heart,” coined the term “emotional labor” for this kind of work. “Day-care centers, nursing homes, hospitals, airports, stores, call centers, classrooms, social welfare offices, dental offices—in all these workplaces, gladly or reluctantly, brilliantly or poorly, employees do emotional labor,” she wrote. “The poor salesclerk working in an elite clothing boutique manages envy. The Wall Street stock-trader manages panic.”
The Repressive Politics of Emotional Intelligence
newyorker.com
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