Tag: capitalism
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What happens when EV’s are just V’s?
Tesla is changing from a tech company that makes cars to a car company with new tech, and that has implications.
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
This leftist assessment of our current economic situation has a lot to offer but lost me in a few critical ways.
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Exposure by Robert Bilott
Years ago a business mentor of mine told me a story: “When I started out in business I thought that big companies were all evil. Then as I got older I started to realize that they were trying to do good, and often misunderstood. Then, I got a little older and realized I was right…
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Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats who Rule the World by Oliver Bullough
Inequality is likely second only to climate change on the list of defining issues of today, and this book approaches the issue from a unique angle. There are dozens of books about rich people behaving badly, and the ideas of tax havens, offshore accounts, holding companies and multiple citizenship all work their way into the…
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“I may have gotten a woman fired for less than $2 and a pint of ice cream.”
Kira Witkin in Esquire: I Got Paid to Spy on People While They Worked. I know a lot of people that work or have worked in retail and more than a few have been fired after failing secret shopper tests. I’ve never considered the other side of the story though. The average commission is $15…
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Corporate Bullshit
This book looks fun, and it sounds a lot like Paul Fairie’s upcoming The Press Gallery. (he is the guy behind viral Twitter threads like A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore). I read The Big Myth recently which touched on a lot of these garbage arguments that corporations use to try to…
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Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins
A lot has happened since Ludicrous was published a couple of years ago. This book covers all of the same ground, from a more neutral perspective, with 40 pages at the end of more current events. The author doesn’t mythologize Musk but isn’t harsh at all. The whole Tim Cook bit takes up half a page and…
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Servants of the Damned by David Enrich
This shares a lot of DNA with When McKinsey Comes to Town. In some ways, it’s the book I was hoping to read when I picked that one up. It is great, but has a flaw similar to the McKinsey book, in that the author gets in his own way. It’s split into three parts, each…
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Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison
I’m not sure if this was originally planned as a long read for Bloomberg or Wired or something, but it seemed to me to be very padded. I really struggled to stay engaged. We learn the backstory of figures that appear for a single chapter. There is a lot of inside-baseball HR stuff that is…