Tag: American
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What the kids are saying
🔗 Study Reveals America’s Most Searched Slang Words 2025 / OHIO; mayonnaise
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There is wide agreement that AMS<->LCY is the perfect flight.
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Thirty Years On, the Californian Ideology is Alive and Well – The cycle of tech loosing its democratic morals in favor of tech innovation, and, of course, making money.
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The Creator Economy Is a Race to the Bottom for Human Dignity – “Edelman Trust Data reveals (especially for Gen Z) that people are more likely to trust what a creator says about a brand than what the brand’s own CEO says about the brand. Compounded by parasocial relationships and a dash of isolation, people…
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American – “I know the nationalities of my fellow oath-takers because of the next stage of the ceremony. This was the Roll Call of Nations. I did not know this was going to happen. Every country of origin represented was announced in turn. As your country was named, you were asked to stand up, and…
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Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and the Allocation of Workers to Jobs by Virginia Minni :: SSRN – Match workers to jobs they’re good at. // “My results imply that the visible hands of managers match workers’ specific skills to specialized jobs, leading to an improvement in the productivity of existing workers that outlasts…
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28 slightly rude notes on writing – by Adam Mastroianni – ”Somehow, whenever I finish a draft, my first few paragraphs almost always contain ideas that were necessary for writing the rest of the piece, but that aren’t necessary for understanding it.” // Lower down, that first part to delete is called “the windup.” I…
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The Titan Who Couldn’t Let Go – Founder mode case study: “There’s a pattern here, and it’s bigger than Hughes. Obsession works–in short bursts, in narrow contexts, with clear feedback loops. But scale it up, let it harden into infrastructure, and it starts to rot the system from the inside. Hughes structurally disallowed any process…
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This 7,000-year-old mummy DNA has revealed a ‘ghost’ branch of humanity – A lost genetic line.
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A Visit to Costco in France – I could feel my heart racing in excitement as I scrolled through this. Of course, I could see that tariffs would destroy this beautiful occurrence. They have a KitchenAid! For American expats, a coveted item in Europe.
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Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies – ‘last year 17% of Republicans viewed the EU as “unfriendly” or as an “enemy”; that has now grown to 29%.’
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Consumers React To Tariffs With Concern And Caution – “4% of Democrats support the tariffs, and 26% of Republicans oppose them.” // Also, anecdotes of what people plan to do to deal with price increases.
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What do tariffs on Canadian goods have to do with me? – Sherwood News – Bacon and lumber to be more expensive, among other things.
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Rage Against the Machine – Perceptive: “They’re going to try two or three things they think will solve everything, which will be thrown out in court,” the official told me following the announcement of Musk’s appointment. “I assume the first thing they’ll do is some kind of hiring freeze, and then, after three months, they’ll…
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No Rules Are Implicit Rules – The European view on enlightened American management policy: “Greg, I hate to bring it to you, but working for ten fucking hours a day is not the normal hour. I don’t care if you live in America or not. The section continues with other “grand” examples of managers taking…
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Dell ends hybrid work policy despite remote work pledge – “Overall, our results do not support the argument that managers impose these mandates to increase firm values,” the authors state in their paper. “Instead, these findings are consistent with managers using RTO mandates to reassert control over employees and blame employees as a scapegoat for…
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