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  Robert Giroux has been described as an editor, a publisher, and a lifelong common reader—in short, a bookman. After fifteen years at Harcourt Brace and Company, he has been associated with Farrar, Straus and Giroux since 1955 and has worked with some of the most esteemed writers of the...

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If we think about a company as an organism, then a knowledge management system is essentially the (collective) brain that keeps that organism alive and running. A corporate knowledge management system should contain every single bit of codifiable information within the company resulting in a library

My #OSOSNZ prayer. Thank you all fabulous people! pic.twitter.com/d3kBl8gLy8— Audrey Tang 唐鳳 (@audreyt) August 23, 2016

Communication is not for Habermas a simple empirical phenomenon. Rather it has, in his view, the dual structure that is characteristic of the major ideological constructs of Western history, for instance the theories of “freedom,” “democracy” and “rights.”

Simplicity, small size, portability, and embeddability set Lua apart from other scripting languages.

A complete guide to understanding loneliness, inccluding what it is, what causes it, and how to stop being lonely.

Consider pic.twitter.com/mygOSh1GtM— dom 🌒 (@leek_farm) November 9, 2020

For Hegel, human nature strives through history to unchain itself from tradition. But is such inner freedom worth the cost?

flowin down that Nietzsche—>Derrida—>Deleuze—>Badiou—>Guattari—>Laruelle—>Simondon—>Ruyer (etc) pipeline— Taylor Adkins (@tadkins613) November 5, 2020

After reporting on personal finance, I used behavioral economics on myself.

“You’d think years of using the tool would make us proficient, but email is considered one of the biggest time wasters at work.”

I originally prepared this note for the AI Roundtable, a program produced for the opening ceremony of the 2020 US e-Go Congress. (Opening…

For many Indigenous people, the collapse of our current system is not necessarily bad news.