~ WWW ~ Wealth Without Work
~ PWC ~ Pleasure Without Conscience
~ KWC ~ Knowledge Without Character
~ CWM ~ Commerce Without Morality
~ SWH ~ Science Without Humanity
~ RWS ~ Religion Without Sacrifice
~ PWP ~ Politics Without Principle
~ WWW ~ Wealth Without Work
~ PWC ~ Pleasure Without Conscience
~ KWC ~ Knowledge Without Character
~ CWM ~ Commerce Without Morality
~ SWH ~ Science Without Humanity
~ RWS ~ Religion Without Sacrifice
~ PWP ~ Politics Without Principle
~ L ~ Listen
~ BGIIO ~ Be Genuinely Interested In Others
~ NE-NJAW ~ Network Everywhere – Not Just At Work
~ BP ~ Be Proactive
~ FOYCNF ~ Focus On Your Current Network First
~ UYCCTHYEYN ~ Use Your Current Connections To Help You Expand Your Network
~ UCIOSTKOC ~ Use Common Interests Or Settings To Kick Off Conversations
~ DBAS ~ Don’t Be A Snob
~ BAC ~ Become A Connector
~ MYWOBTA ~ Make Yourself Worthy Of Being Talked About
~ BWKFOST ~ Be Well Known For One Specific Thing
~ TR ~ Take Responsibility
~ FWTEYR ~ Find Ways To Expand Your Role
~ MOLG ~ Make Others Look Good
~ YJDIJTB-YHTDALMTWYGHTD ~ Your Job Description Is Just The Beginning – You’ll Have To Do A Lot More Than What You Got Hired To Do
~ YJIT ~ Your Job Is Temporary
~ YGTNALOSYBDHRN ~ You’re Going To Need A Lot Of Skills You Probably Don’t Have Right Now
~ YRITSGAYH ~ Your Reputation Is The Single Greatest Asset You Have
~ YPLINP ~ Your Personal Life Is Now Public
~ YNTBAPPINM ~ You Need To Build A Positive Presence In New Media
~ YNTWWPFDG ~ You’ll Need To Work With People From Different Generations
~ YGCCF ~ Your Boss’s Career Comes First
~ TOWTMCW ~ The One With The Most Connections Wins
~ R-TROO-AITIOPTCYLFTB ~ Remember – The Rule Of One – All It Takes Is One Person To Change Your Life For The Better
~ YATF ~ You Are The Future
~ EIFENJBO ~ Entrepreneurship Is For Everyone Not Just Business Owners
~ HAO-AAI-RYV-DOI ~ Hours Are Out – Accomplishments Are In – Realize Your Value – Deliver On It
~ YCIIY-NYE-BAFYOCATCOYOL ~ Your Career Is In Your Hands – Not Your Employer’s – Be Accountable For Your Own Career And Take Charge Of Your Own Life
~ GI-CBF-BTRORFDOCOMBTAFD-Y-TPIRWEAF-IOW-IIMLTP-BIACSGTLWTBU ~ Good Ideas – Can Be Found – But Then Rejected Or Ridiculed For Decades Or Centuries Or Millennia Before They Are Finally Discovered – Yes – The Past Is Riddled With Error And Fraud – In Other Words – It Is Much Like The Present – But It Also Contains Surprising Gems That Lie Waiting To Be Unforgotten
~ TAOR-AR-LIQOIO:A/K/J/R&R/ATPOTI ~ The Art Of Rethinking – And Rediscovery – Lies In Questioning Our Ideas Of: Authority / Knowledge / Judgment / Right And Wrong / And The Processes Of Thinking Itself
~ IWANCRI-WANRT ~ If We Are Not Constantly Rethinking Ideas – We Are Not Really Thinking
~ TBNIAOOO ~ The Best New Ideas Are Often Old Ones
~ AOICBRAWTDOANPOTP ~ An Old Idea Can Become Relevant Again With The Discovery Of A New Piece Of The Puzzle
~ JBWDKHSWDMTIDW ~ Just Because We Don’t Know How Something Works Doesn’t Mean That It Doesn’t Work
~ AOIIADC-UOPIANG ~ An Old Idea In A Different Context – Using Old Pieces In A New Game
~ ITCHWAEPIPTADU-ATSITOI-AOIIANCCBPI ~ Impressive Things Can Happen When An Existing Product Is Put To A Different Use – And The Same Is True Of IdeaS – An Old Idea In A New Context Can Become Powerful Indeed
~ DWTBF ~ Disinformation Wants To Be Free
~ WTTTTEWCRTMAMCTTA-TAH ~ We Tend To Think That Events Which Come Readily To Mind Are More Common Than They Are – The Availability Heuristic
~ WATTNOTETCWWAT-CB ~ We Also Tend To Notice Only The Evidence That Confirms What We Already Think – Confirmation Bias
~ SIASAOTT-WTAFP-TP-C-S-O-E-O-IIOET-TPACTPI-ODSNY-OSRTSACC-OIMJCFTWKOP ~ Some Ideas Are Simply Ahead Of Their Time – When They Are First Proposed – The Prevailing – Cultural – Social – Or – Economic – Order – Is Incapable Of Embracing Them – They Pose A Challenge To Powerful Interests – Or Don’t Seem Necessary Yet – Or Simply Represent Too Startling A Conceptual Change – Or It Might Just Come From The Wrong Kind Of Person
~ NEIHBTOB-Y-ETANUHMOTPIITIOC ~ Not Every Idea Has Been Thought Of Before – Yet – Even The Apparently Novel Usually Has More Of The Past In It Than Is Often Credited
~ ITT-TUATB-H(SSO)-A-I(FNPD) ~ In Technical Terms – The Universe Appears To Be – Homogeneous (Smoothly Spread Out) – And – Isotropic (Favoring No Particular Direction)
~ UF ~ UnFalse
~ TMN-STATOTPMHUA ~ The Most Novel-Seeming Theories And Technologies Of The Present May Have Unexpected Ancestors
~ ICRAGSTA-EITJISOOTUT-TAHGRFWTISSVOENAACON ~ Ideas Can Return And Gain Significant Traction Again – Even If The Jury Is Still Out On Their Ultimate Truth – Their Advocates Have Good Reasons For Why The Ideas Suddenly Seem Viable Or Even Necessary Again After Centuries Of Neglect
~ S-I-R-WTSDHS-D ~ Sometimes – Ideas – Return – When They Should Definitely Have Stayed – Dead
~ AIWHAGCO-HAAAZ-IIBSIGOP ~ An Idea Will Have A Good Chance Of – Hanging Around As A Zombie – If It Benefits Some Influential Group Of People
~ CM ~ Conspiracy Markets
~ BWCBU-IRUOWWDK ~ Being Wrong Can Be Useful – In Reminding Us Of What We Don’t Know
~ SOSRITPOTOTBSAWTFCTTRTG ~ Stories Of Scientific Revolutions In The Past Often Turn Out To Be Stories About Wrong Theories Forcing Correct Theories To Raise Their Game
~ TPWTOTBWCBJAIATWTOTBR ~ The People Who Turn Out To Be Wrong Can Be Just As Important As Those Who Turn Out To Be Right
~ THOHT-INALSO-FTBRBTO-IMLADATWIWFOICBSAOFC-USFTAABGOTSF ~ The History Of Human Thought – Is Not A Linear Sequence Of – False Theories Being Replaced By True Ones – It’s More Like A Dark And Tangled Web – In Which Flashes Of Inspiration Can Be Smothered And Obscured For Centuries – Until Someone Finds Them Again And Blows Gently On The Sputtering Flames
~ WNTKWWDK ~ We Need To Know What We Don’t Know
~ SOIASP-IDEMWTAT-PI-HETTNNT ~ Some Old Ideas Are So Powerful – It Doesn’t Even Matter Whether They Are True – Placebo Ideas – Helpful Even Though They’re Not Necessarily True
~ MRNTITOA-PS-OW-E-HAP-RTABDB-P-A-‘N’-P ~ Many Researchers Now Think In Terms Of A – Psychosis Spectrum – On Which – Everyone – Has A Place – Rather Than A Binary Distinction Between – Psychotics – And – “Normal” – People
~ D-AWA-H-STBCBTBWJAIND-OMS ~ Delusions – As Well As – Hallucinations – Seem To Be Caused By The Brain Working Just As It Normally Does – Only More So
~ DWKTWDHFW? ~ Do We Know That We Don’t Have Free Will?
~ WLIAAO-TPP-WSRBAE-A-TROPOBTMPIDL ~ We Live In An Age Of – The Professionalized Politician – Who Seeks Reelection Before All Else – And – The Range Of Policies Offered By The Main Parties Is Dramatically Limited
~ T-PPC-HLTNEONWL-ACOFTPOIOP-TSRIMARB ~ The – Professionalized Political Class – Has Little To No Experience Of Normal Working Life – And – Cares Only For The Perpetuation Of Its Own Power – To Secure Reelection It Must Assuage Rich Benefactors
~ WIWWGNB-CP-B-BARCAOOP?-TTIAOI-SISF-B-TIHTAADI-TIODT-CTGBL-IC-S-A-MITTTIA ~ What If We Were Governed Not By – Career Politicians – But – By A Randomly Chosen Assortment Of Our Peers? – This Too Is An Old Idea – Sure It Sounds Fanciful – But – That Is How The Ancient Athenians Did It – The Inventors Of Democracy Themselves – Chose Their Government By Lottery – It’s Called – Sortition – And – Maybe It’s Time To Try It Again
~ TRITKA:’WN’ ~ To Rethink Is To Keep Asking: “Why Not”
~ WMSHTTTR-HI-SWUI? ~ We Might Soon Have The Technology To Rethink – Humanity Itself – Should We Use It?
~ SOTF-TEVP-TNOTN ~ Survival Of The Fittest – The Equally Valid Perspective – The Nonsurvival Of The Nonfittest
~ YSNRTM-JBYDLTM ~ You Shouldn’t Necessarily Reject – The Message – Just Because You Don’t Like The Messenger
~ GAFHTPFTPWHBUMIAEDOR ~ Giving A Fair Hearing To People From The Past Who Have Been Unfairly Maligned Is An Ethical Demand Of Rethinking
~ TVFT-POMIAMCF-A-STP-WSBAWCJ-IOTQIGA ~ The – View From Tomorrow – Projecting One’s Mind Into A More Civilized Future – And – Scrutinizing The Present – With Sympathy But Also With Cold Justice – In Order To Question Its Governing Assumptions
~ BADT-PDFT-AMDWFTBOO ~ Beliefs Are Dangerous Things – People Die For Them – And More Die Unwillingly For The Beliefs Of Others
~ AHEIAHB ~ An Honest Ego In A Healthy Body
~ AETSN ~ An Eye To See Nature
~ AHTFN ~ A Heart To Feel Nature
~ CTFN ~ Courage To Follow Nature
~ TSOP(H) ~ The Sense Of Proportion (Humor)
~ AFWAIAIAW ~ Appreciation For Work As Idea And Idea As Work
~ FOI ~ Fertility Of Imagination
~ CFFAR ~ Capacity For Faith And Rebellion
~ DRC(I)E ~ Disregard For Commonplace (Inorganic) Elegance
~ IC ~ Instinctive Cooperation
~ YDLUYL ~ You Don’t Learn Until You Launch
~ ASIABME-IH-HIP-HLOI-HLOU ~ A Startup Is A Bit More Exciting – It Has: High Impact Potential – High Levels Of Innovation – High Levels Of Uncertainty
~ TVMOSSATNI ~ The Vast Majority Of Successful Startups Are Teams Not Individuals
~ PDKWTDWUTAFTOTW ~ People Don’t Know What They Don’t Want Until They Are Forced To Open Their Wallets
~ LPAHP-TMEBMI-TATSYGIOBATTEYIAAIF ~ Luck Plays A Huge Part – Timing Might Even Be More Important – The Abilities To Sell Your Great Idea Or Build A Team To Execute Your Idea Are Also Important Factors
~ W ~ Wantrepreneur
~ I-YHACWAFAYBITM-ANMYAHTSC-YAA-W ~ If – You Have A Conversation With A Friend About Your Business Idea This Month – And Next Month You Are Having The Same Conversation – You Are A – Wantrepreneur
~ IAWYCAI-7D-YCDOYWGV-BYCLS ~ It’s Amazing What You Can Achieve In – 7 Days – You Can’t Deliver On Your Whole Grand Vision – But You Can Launch Something
~ T-7-DSM-ITYWLII-7D-YWWATBSTYDKPW-OYAFAW-YWSTQEAAFOAWTMIH ~ The – 7-Day Startup Mindset – Is That You Will Launch It In – 7 Days – You Won’t Waste Any Time Building Something That You Don’t Know People Want – Once You Aim For A Week – You Will Start To Question Every Assumption And Figure Out A Way To Make It Happen
~ IMNSTSABTIGTHYDWYDE ~ It Makes No Sense To Start A Business That Is Going To Have You Doing Work You Don’t Enjoy
~ IYIAGI? ~ Is Your Idea A Good Idea?
~ SPWPAAPFS ~ Solve Problems Where People Are Already Paying For Solutions
~ MVP ~ Minimum Viable Product
~ TOMTM-EBIDAY-OMTNM-MBD ~ The One Metric That Matters – Ever Business Is Different And Your – Omtnm – May Be Different
~ TEA ~ Test Every Assumption
~ SPATA ~ Solve Problems As They Arise
~ DWYSYWD ~ Do What You Say You Will Do
~ BATB ~ Benchmark Against The Best
~ LROAY ~ Learn From Others And Yourself
~ OYC ~ Outlearn Your Competition
~ ACHYBLWY ~ Always Consider How Your Business Looks Without You
~ LFSOM ~ Look For Sources Of Momentum
~ MM ~ Manage Motivation
~ CDC ~ Cull Difficult Customers
~ FOR ~ Focus On Retention
~ AS-TT ~ Avoid Short-Term Thinking
~ FOP ~ Focus On Product
~ LYW ~ Love Your Work
~ CSN-CSV-A-HV ~ Create Something New – Create Something Valuable – And – Have Fun
~ SM-SE ~ If You Believe Business Is Built On Relationships – Make Building Them Your Business
~ BAMTYFOWYUBTTT-TIWSYFOIYI-IYAYASYHNC ~ Being Authentic Means That You Focus On What You Uniquely Bring To The Table – That Is What Separates You From Others In Your Industry – If You Are Your Authentic Self You Have No Competition
~ BTTT-FRTT ~ Building Trust Takes Time – Fostering Relationships Takes Time
~ TSUYB-YGSBTGTTPWYAAREIYF ~ To Successfully Unmarket Your Business – Your Goal Should Be To Get To The Point Where You Are A Recognized Expert In Your Field
~ WYPYAAEWUIFP-YMWAHANFTI ~ When You Position Yourself As An Expert With Useful Information For People – Your Marketplace Will Always Have A Need For That Information
~ S-YMNB-TE-ITF-BYCCB-A-E ~ Sure – You May Not Be – The Expert – In The Field – But You Can Certainly Be – An – Expert
~ YDBAE-BJTPYAE-PTYATTTO-OPWSIFY ~ You Don’t Become An Expert – By Just Telling People You’re An Expert – People Tell You And Then They Tell Others – Other People Will Say It For You
~ ‘PAP’M-P-SOTA-P-PBI ~ “Push And Pray Marketing” – Push – Something Out There And – Pray – People Buy It
~ P-A-SM-Y-P-CIA-S-IFOT ~ Pull-And-Stay Method – You – Pull – Customer Information And – Stay – In Front Of Them
~ ROR ~ Return On Relationships
~ PANCBN-TWSOBTTME-ATWESG-TWJG ~ People Are Not Confrontational By Nature – They Will Speak Only By Taking Their Money Elsewhere – And They Won’t Even Say Goodbye – They Will Just Go
~ WPCTY-TAFLFV-NC-TWTKTTHBH-TWTKTTM-ATWTKTYC ~ When People Complain To You – They Are First Looking For Validation – Not Compensation – They Want To Know That They Have Been Heard – They Want To Know That They Matter – And They Want To Know That You Care
~ DFTT ~ Don’t Feed The Trolls
~ WTBPOSR-IYC-IIWAIAOM ~ Work To Become Part Of Somebody’s Routine – If You Can – It Is Worth An Incredible Amount Of Money
~ YNTKIYCAH-AITAYNTKWAHYCCI-YNTKWYSITEOYC ~ You Need To Know If Your Customers Are Happy – And If They Aren’t You Need To Know Why And How You Can Change It – You Need To Know Where You Stand In The Eyes Of Your Customers
~ DRS-FTSOA-TYDWTSOAB ~ Don’t Reveal Something – For The Sake Of Authenticity – That You Don’t Want To See On A Billboard
~ K-T-L ~ Know – Trust – Like
~ TDYSTTYA-AIAT-TTDTBRH ~ The Day You Start Talking To Your Audience – And It’s About Them – That’s The Day That Business Really Happens
~ NBPFSIVMIWTNHSAA ~ Not Being Prepared For Success In Viral Marketing Is Worse Than Never Having Success At All
~ WYN-YCMAMOOI ~ Whatever Your Niche – You Can Make A Movie Out Of It
~ S-TDFH-A-S-S ~ Stop – Trading Dollars For Hours – And – Start – Scaling
~ AEPOE-YAMYB ~ At Ever Point Of Engagement – You Are Marketing Your Business
~ A-SOT-E-ITPOH-E-SAP;WSMATP-B-OPSTBP ~ A – Sort Of Tank – Entered – In The Prime Of Health – Exited – Shrunken And Phthisic; Where So Much Activity Took Place – But – Only Paper Seemed To Be Produced
~ ‘W-CS’ ~ “White-Collar Sweatshops”
~ TTWWBJARA-FL-TIAOTJ-P-HS-RTIT-TITTBTAPCWPI-TPWUFG ~ Though Their Work Was Becoming Just As Routinized As – Factory Labor – The Intangible Aspects Of Their Job – Prestige – High Status – Rendered Them Immune To – The Idea That They Belonged To A Particular Class With Particular Interests – Their Politics Were Up For Grabs
~ TCC ~ The Clerking Class
~ I-WPMAMAW-A-P ~ Industrialization – Was Producing More And More Administrative Work – And – Paperwork
~ U-FOFW-OW-DPA-AB-ISTRT ~ Unlike – Farming Or Factory Work – Office Work – Didn’t Produce Anything – At Best – It Seemed To Reproduce Things
~ TCW-‘C’-BTGWTTW-‘O’ ~ The Customary Word – “Countinghouse” – Began To Give Way To The Word – “Office”
~ U-‘S’-TKWOT-ILM-TETBTTHACWTO-‘S-I’ ~ Unlike – “Solidarity” – The Key Word Of The – Industrial Labor Movement – The Ethic That Began To Take Hold Among Clerks Was That Of – “Self-Improvement”
~ CWWUF-TC-KWO-FAF-WKWPD-OCWMTC;THNOTROBT ~ Clerical Workers Were Uprooted From – The Close-Knit World Of – Families And Farms – Where Knowledge Was Passed Down – Other Clerks Were Merely Their Competition; They Had No One To Rely On But Themselves
~ S-EBAKCS-TOW-F-TROTWOW ~ Self-Education Became A Key Component Separating – The Office World – From – The Rest Of The World Of Work
~ TO-ATFOPDIE-MIFHGBTOMIO-TG ~ The Office – And The Fears Of Physical Degradation It Engendered – Might In Fact Have Given Birth To Our Modern Idea Of – The Gym
~ WCPO-TGIWC-RTAASFOTO-WE?-O-WTMSPOTWTBPO-T-‘RC’?~ Were Clerks Part Of – The Growing Industrial Working Class – Replacing The Artisans And Small Farmers Of The Old-World Economy? – Or – Were They Merely Stopping Points On The Way To Becoming Part Of – The – “Ruling Class”?
~ F-T-T-L-D-OF-C-GTT-F-LLOTO ~ Farewell – The – Tranquil – Languorous – Days – Of The – Countinghouse – Greetings – To The Factory-Like Labor Of The Office
~ MWS ~ Men With Stopwatches
~ TTWHA-‘L’-GRTAWNI-ATM-L ~ Things That Were Heralded As – “Laborsaving” – Gave Rise To A Whole New Industry – And To More – Labor
~ LHT-TTATT-TNLC-WTIO-TVFC ~ Less Heralded Than – The Typewriter And The Telegraph – Though No Less Consequential – Was The Invention Of – The Vertical File Cabinet
~ CW-NLETERWTTOTFW-ATB-WNMTIHRR-TM-FLOAP-TFF ~ Clerical Workers – No Longer Enjoying The Easy Rapport With Their Two Or Three Fellow Workers – And Their Bosses – Were Now Massed Together In Highly Regimented Rows – To Mimic – For Lack Of Another Precedent – The Factory Floor
~ MDKNTM ~ Managers Didn’t Know How To Manage
~ WWMHITPFTWWNRT-ATPW-‘CIAM’ ~ Workers Who Might Have Initially Taken Pride From Their Work Were Now Reduced To – As The Phrase Went – “Cogs In A Machine”
~ OGE-STHATN-WS-WTSAC ~ Offices Grew Enormously – Simply To House All The New – White Shirts – With Their Stopwatches And Cameras
~ T-DOPM-HBOO-SM-MLA-HCDTUUADBFN:HR ~ The – Department Of Personnel Management – Has Been One Of – Scientific Management’s – Most Lasting Achievements – Having Come Down To Us Under A Different But Familiar Name: Human Resources
~ W-H-FMP-GMSALI-BBD ~ Work – Had – For Most People – Gotten More Specialized And Less Interesting – Blessed By Drudgery!
~ ‘WC’ ~ “White-Collar”
~ OIBATWWPCOW-AOABTM-TBTETOWEM-CUTME ~ Once It Became Apparent That Women Were Perfectly Capable Office Workers – And Often Accounted Better Than Men – They Began To Enter The Office World En Mass – Completely Upending The Male Enclaves
~ DWTNTDHFM-WWJC-‘T’ ~ Dispensing With The Need To Distinguish Humans From Machines – Women Were Just Called – “Typewriters”
~ TLPIAOWLTBOBW-ETT-‘OB’-MTL-PAMMJITW-CTDSOES ~ The Lowest Position In Any Office Were Likely To Be Occupied By Women – Even The Term – “Office Boy” – Meaning The Lowest-Paid And Most Menial Job In The Workplace – Came To Designate Someone Of Either Sex
~ ITWWRTOBASOPC ~ Insinuating That Women Were Ruining The Office Became A Sport Of Popular Culture
~ TT-‘OW’-BTETVTDTSWWCTHBTHWTHOW ~ The Term – “Office Wife” – Began To Enter The Vernacular To Describe The Secretary Who Was Closer To Her Boss Than He Was To His Own Wife
~ S-WTBAGOTOMV ~ Skyscrapers – Were The Birth And Growth Of The Office Made Visible
~ TP-‘W-CS’-BAPOITP ~ The Phrase – “White-Collar Slave” – Became A Popular One In The Press
~ UOLTITMIITROOW-TTCT-W-CS-FTFC ~ Union Organizers Lamented Their Inability To Make Inroads Into The Ranks Of Office Workers – Tending To Chide The – White-Collar Slaves – For Their False Consciousness
~ TCUOTOW-WWO-TWC-BRTBIOPIAOIA-P-OO-AAABBCAL ~ The Contradictory Understanding Of The Office Worker – Who Was Of – The Working Class – But Refused To Believe It Or Participate In Any Of Its Activities – Political – Or Otherwise – Acting As A Buffer Between Capital And Labor
~ TGPOBS-S/A/P-LMTTTDHW-AB-RR-HTSB-WCTBCT-‘HR’M ~ The Growing Popularity Of Behavioral Sciences – Sociology / Anthropology / Psychology – Led Managers To Try To Discover How Workers – Actually Behaved – Rather Than – How They Should Behave – What Came To Be Called The – “Human Relations” Movement
~ TFL ~ The Fluorescent Lightbulb
~ IT-TTR-MHHTSCTIPDAWG-IP-IMCCMUATB-ATTQBAGIGWTCW ~ In Theory – The Testing Regime – Might Have Helped To Slot Congenial Types Into Proper Departments And Work Groups – In Practice – It Made Corporate Culture More Uniform Across The Board – Answering The Test Questions Became A Game In Guessing What The Company Wanted
~ TOWTITF-A-TFBTBTIOTO ~ The Office Worked To Incorporate The Family – And – The Family Began To Bear The Imprint Of The Office
~ ABW-IWAFOETNMIITS ~ A Boss’s Wife – It Was A Form Of Employment That Never Made It Into The Statistics
~ X&Y ~ Theory X & Theory Y
~ X=C/M/S ~ Theory X = Coercion / Manipulation / Supervision
~ Y=S-D&S-C ~ Theory Y = Self-Direction & Self-Control
~ ‘KW’-M-CEWWNITW-T-‘P’-N-IF-W-M ~ “Knowledge Workers” – Middle-Class Employees Who Would Never Identify Themselves With – The – “Proletariat” – Nor – In Fact – With – Management
~ KW-D-TD-S-TTSAMTLAE-ST-KWWLP:YKIWYSI ~ Knowledge Work – Difficult – To Define – Still – The Term Spread Among Management Theorists Like An Epidemic – Suggesting That – Knowledge Work Was Like Pornography: You Knew It When You Saw It
~ KWWBTHOACNS-A-‘IS’-IWTWTC-‘SA’-ATWRTUCAA-‘CC’ ~ Knowledge Workers Would Be The Heroes Of A Coming New Society – An – “Information Society” – In Which They Were The Chief – “Symbolic Analysts” – All The While Rehabbing The Urban Core As A – “Creative Class”
~ IAC-WCOAN-IAC-WS-ITRT-OPTW-SCVFTPOWWL ~ Interaction And Communication – Were Conceived Of As Norms – Introspection And Concentration – Were Sidelined – In The Rush To – Open-Plan The World – Some Crucial Values For The Performance Of Work Were Lost
~ ITOTCHNIICAEFT-‘HP’-I-TWT-SAMPIASASFACAPAWAP ~ It Turned Out That Companies Had No Interest In Creating Autonomous Environments For The – “Human Performers” – Instead – They Wanted To – Stuff As Many People In As Small A Space For As Cheaply As Possible As Quickly As Possible
~ OWFUW-OW-WEWGRUATAPFA-AT-‘HR’-P-WLIATST ~ Offices Were Filling Up With – Overeducated Workers – Whose Expectations Were Gradually Running Up Against Their Actual Possibilities For Advancement – And The – “Human Relations” – Paradigm – Was Losing Its Ability To Soothe Them
~ TC-HTEOPPCETEOTCSSA-BDTSTTDAFTTWWT-ATHOPASBTBON ~ The Cubicle – Had The Effect Of Putting People Close Enough To Each Other To Create Serious Social Annoyances – But Dividing Them So That They Didn’t Actually Feel That They Were Working Together – All The Hazards Of Privacy And Sociability But The Benefits Of Neither
~ FDHTBOMTITMGFKWDAC ~ Flexibility Doesn’t Have To Be One More Trick In The Managerial Guidebook For Keeping Workers Docile And Consenting
~ EFC-IIOTTLASF-IATA-WEAGFK ~ Ebooks For Children – It Is One Thing To Look At Sales Figures – It’s Another To Ask – Whether Ebooks Are Good For Kids
~ TMTK-TMTR ~ Too Much To Know – Too Much To Read
~ TL;DR – Too Long; Didn’t Read
~ ATWTWDTP-PTTV-LAL-OWIO-TRHS-E-TAOPWII-TLL-HC ~ As They Work Their Way Down The Page – People Tend To View – Less And Less – Of What Is On – The Right-Hand Side – Essentially – They Are Only Processing What Is In – The Lower Left-Hand Corner
~ RSA-80%-OTT-RWIO-TIP ~ Readers Spend About – 80 Percent – Of Their Time – Reading What Is On – The Initial Page
~ YDWTSOCFAWTDPO-AS-T-BR-WB ~ You Don’t Want To Shell Out Cash For A Work That Doesn’t Pan Out – And So – The – Book Review – Was Born
~ Tl;DS – Too Long; Didn’t Scroll
~ WSAECAY ~ What Should An Ebook Cost Anyway?
~ WHTAWCDDEP? ~ What Happens To Authors When Competition Drives Down Ebook Prices?
~ IT-33P-OM-TM-ASE-CW-2/3OAP-TMAPB ~ It Takes – 33 Pounds – Of Minerals – To Make – A Single Ereader Compared With – 2/3 Of A Pound – To Make A Printed Book
~ PAE-R-100K-HOFF-WP-66POCO2-CW-2KH-A-1OOTLIGG-FAB ~ Producing An Ereader – Requires – 100 Kilowatt-Hours Of Fossil Fuels – Which Produce – 66 Pounds Of Co2 – Compared With – 2 Kilowatt-Hours – And – 100 Times Less In Greenhouse Gases – For A Book
~ ‘R’-AE-TEIPM-IGDIPC-OBC-WWAETEHRFT ~ “Recycling” – An Ereader – To Extract Its Precious Minerals – Is Generally Done In Poor Countries – Often By Children – Where Workers Are Exposed To Enormous Health Risks From Toxins
~ P-UMCIDD-AARR ~ Paper – Unlike Many Components In Digital Devices – Is A Renewable Resource
~ A-30BWOE-ACWB-DDW-TAEOTOO-30NPP ~ About – 30 Billion Watts Of Electricity – Are Consumed Worldwide By – Digital Data Warehouses – The Approximate Equivalent Of The Output Of – 30 Nuclear Power Plants
~ TJIDSOO-WDROP-IN-OWB-MEF ~ The Jury Is Definitely Still Out On – Whether Digital Reading Or Paper – Is Now – Or Will Become – More Environmentally Friendly
~ PA-TIAL-IAMC-TNOAFPLIAFR ~ Public Access – To Information And Learning – Is A Modern Concept – The Notion Of A Free Public Library Is Also Fairly Recent
~ CB-IYGITTS-YCHTN ~ Centuries Back – If You Gathered In The Town Square – You Could Hear The News
~ MOOC ~ Massive Open Online Courses
~ WCTSSASAFPP ~ We Continue To See Stories About Students And Faculty Preferring Print
~ ASWTDCRITM ~ A Surefire Way To Disrupt Careful Reading Is To Multitask
~ TMPRGF-E-IF ~ The Most Popular Reading Genre For – Ebooks – Is Fiction
~ IADW-OISAQE ~ In A Digital World – Once Is Seen As Quite Enough
~ HSIR? ~ How Social Is Reading?
~ RA-TTWWNAT-WACO ~ Reading Aloud – To Those Who Were Not Able To – Was A Common Occurrence
~ T-TFMOPCTFTPOR-IF-T-FRGOO-AW-A-TBTR-O-A-F ~ Today – The Fast Majority Of People Coming Together For The Purpose Of Reading – In Face-To-Face Reading Groups Or Online – Are Women – And – The Books They’re Reading – Overwhelmingly – Are – Fiction
~ EST-CBU-B-STMTTTW ~ Electronic Search Tools – Can Be Useful – But – Sometimes Take More Time Than They’re Worth
~ SHUA-PIUTL ~ Screens Hastens Us Along – Print Invites Us To Linger
~ HR ~ Hyper Reading
~ SMFAOHC-EC-BL-T-T-A-BC-AMFIVOSN ~ So Many Fundamental Aspects Of Human Communication – Eye Contact – Body Language – Tone – Timbre – And – Bodily Contact – Are Missing From Interactions Via Online Social Networking
~ TIATIO-WHYCDD-RTTWT-HDOTCS ~ There Is Also The Issue Of – Whether Handing Young Children Digital Devices – Rather Than Talking With Them – Hampers Development Of Their Communication Skills
~ CW-RO-P-TTLD-AAR-IEMF ~ Compared With – Reading Onscreen – Print – Tends To Limit Distraction – As A Result – It Encourages Mental Focus
~ MCTBUTDWWAD-EM-AGS ~ Modern Communication Technologies Beckon Us To Drop What We Are Doing – Even Momentarily – And Get Sidetracked
~ Y-WCSHACWSPOC-B-TLOVOIR ~ Yes – We Can Successfully Hold A Conversation While Shelling Peas Or Crocheting – But – The List Of Viable Options Is Restricted
~ ETU-EWU-T-SM-IEAM ~ Experts Tell Us – Even Warn Us – That – Successful Multitasking – Is Essentially A Myth
~ YA-23TML-TCWD-IYAT-TIYN ~ You Are – 23 Times More Likely – To Crash While Driving – If You Are Texting – Than If You’re Not
~ NWSMYPAI-OK-TUTPWD-GTBTSMBA ~ No Wonder So Many Young People Assume It’s – OK – To Use Their Phones While Driving – Given The Behavior They See Modeled By Adults
~ YBOM ~ Your Brain On Multitasking
~ T-DSMMD-‘IUD’-DNMTFC-T-‘IGD’-D ~ The – Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders – “Internet Use Disorder” – Did Not Make The Final Cut – Though – “Internet Gaming Disorder” – Did
~ OTR-6000-LIUT-HAETDO-BTEOTT-FC ~ Of The Roughly – 6000 – Languages In Use Today – Half Are Expected To Die Out – By The End Of The Twenty-First Century
~ WATTMCDTRO?-DF-DS-DT ~ What Are The Three Most Critical Drawbacks To Reading Onscreen? – Distraction First – Distraction Second – Distraction Third
~ SASAYTD-AI;MD-IAIHS ~ Short Attention Span And Yielding To Distraction – Are In; Mental Discipline – Is An Increasingly Hard Sell