#Book

Mike Konczal

rortybomb

NYTimes has a 50y retrospective on Milton Friedman's popularizing of shareholder primacy, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” with line-by-line commentary from smart folks.I discuss the

✨🌸 Dr. Destiny O. Birdsong 🌸✨

destinyoshay

I didn’t think I’d do a thread about this, but here goes: a list of rejections that turned into blessings (minus names of institutions, of course ) 1/x:https://twitter.com/destinyoshay/status/1327367524745433089 In 2018

Dessa Bayrock ✌🏻

YoDessa

It's Canada Reads Longlist Day, and despite (because of?) everything else being terrible, I'm gonna go ahead and warm up this ol' corpse of mine and talk about book prizes

Hyde

SelfMadeLiege

I'm no Twitter goo-rooI'm still studying about how to grow my brand and make it profitableYet there's one thing I can do for you to help you grow your account:Share

Michael Nielsen

michael_nielsen

I've been reading the wonderful book "Cell Biology by the Numbers" (http://book.bionumbers.org ). Here's a thread of striking things I learned from the book (or related reading) 1. In terms

cultural_maxist

Jack__Daw

If you'd done even the most basic research Julia, which clearly you haven't, you'd understand that the "important work" you mention has, throughout Ngo's "career", been a series of lies

Nikhil Krishnan

nikillinit

I think everyone should work at a sub 20 person company once in their life 1) you get to actually see the impact of your work - I think a

Lisa︱Street Smart Cash

lisampatterson

Does your net worth pass The Millionaire Next Door test?For anyone who hasn't read this book yet, put that on your to-do list. It's a must-read, and full of gems.Including

J. Moufawad-Paul

MLM_Mayhem

Reading the recent English translation of Mbembe's *Politiques de l'inimitié* because my French was not good enough to really process the 2016 French version, due to Mbembe's lyricism and theoretical

Shobita Parthasarathy

ShobitaP

Ananda Chakrabarty, biotech pioneer, died July 10. Working for General Electric, he developed a micro-organism genetically engineered to eat oil. This led to a landmark 1980 Supreme Court decision, Diamond

rahula

pashyaka

H should read the book name of the rise by semioticist Umberto eco. Lots of references and puzzles but also a fine description of mediaeval eu and the church A

Rahul Nandakumar

gigarahul

Re-listening to my boy @rrana03_’s podcast features for his book Making Moonshots. Here are my key takeaways and personal thoughts [thread] 1. Making moonshots means relentlessly pursuing radical solutions

Zach Weinersmith

ZachWeiner

Some resolutions you should make for online behavior this year:1) Treat fighting on the Internet as unproductive amusement. Not necessarily bad, but there are much better ways to be amused.2)

Cheryl B. Klein

chavelaque

Aw man, I’m going through some photos from earlier this year, & I found these four Post-Its of writing/publishing advice I keep on my office corkboard, which I haven’t seen

miss honey

leondenarnia

this is now an ongoing thread for my 2021 books with comments/recommendations 1. The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda (mystery/thriller)Tbh kinda forgettable, interesting enough that I finished it but

Jo Luehmann

JoLuehmann

Ok for the purpose of education, let’s do this: (1) Let’s begin by setting the record straight, Jesus never proselytized; he spoke of his faith (which was against religious norms

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