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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. That may increase a certain kind of productivity, but at what cost? There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace.

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Yes, College Essays Are Ruining Our Economy

Harvard Business Review

The technological solution they propose is to use algorithms to sort your missives by importance based on what they can infer about who and what you think is important. Silverman tells us to write shorter." Silverman is awesome!" In theory, that sounds great. You might worry that I would have gotten a lot of "Prof.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.