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More and more, it appears our victory-lap attitude about the pandemic’s end may look like George Bush on an aircraft carrier waving a “mission accomplished” banner.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1416430672948903937.html

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“Culture fit is really a way that power reproduces and sustains itself in an organization and silences any dissent.”

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https://www.lionsroar.com/erased-no-more/

First-person experience with issues that divide “immigrant” and “convert” Buddhist sanghas in the West.

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“if you ask the more interesting question of “What’s the opposite of winning and losing?” nine out of ten of us will say something like, “I don’t know, sitting it out, not playing.”

“One in ten of us says “Playing,” or being or loving or laughing or learning or any of the other things we enjoy every day that aren’t strictly winning and losing. The things we value most in life – marriage, careers, friendship, parenting – these are things you cannot win.”

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“in brand strategy presentations it was totally acceptable to generalize, globalize, lob assumptions as truth, casually plagiarize, misconstrue sociological data, and worse, as long as it was persuasive and narratively coherent.” Emily characteristically sees this as fodder for her art: “It was the feeling I’d always yearned for when I’d tried to write fiction.”…

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“This is a really neat little trick, when you see it clearly. Faced with growing demands to make work more dignified, company owners made the dignity of the worker contingent on doing a good job. By tying the worker’s identity to the work, they undercut any assertion that the work itself was meaningless or poor—because doing so would just reflect back on the worker’s own conception of themselves.”

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"There have been on-going tales for the Avengers, and the Justice League, and all their adjacent friends for decades. So how do you keep these stories fresh and interesting while moving these beloved characters forward?

"Here’s the problem: You don’t."

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