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What Is Management?

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Political Finger Pointing

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The Efficacy of Flattery

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Rana Foroohar On How Big Tech Betrayed All Of Us

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Don't Be Evil summarises how big tech companies have hijacked our data and are using it to amass wealth, influence politics, and manipulate the masses among other things. It foretells the future that awaits humanity if the greed and ambition of tech companies like Facebook and Google are not held in check. Don't Be Evil also recommends steps people can take to secure their data as well as ways governments can curtail the powers of a growing monopoly that threatens to destabilise the world for the sake of profit and control. WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE WORK Don't Be Evil reads like a horror novel. Almost every savvy internet user knows that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other similar companies track us online. They use the data we give them freely to make money by selling it to advertisers who, in turn, use our data to sell us stuff. Don't Be Evil shows that tech companies do not care about our wellbeing as they are bent on making money and ruling us u

On The Importance Of Sleep

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Curtis White And The Revitalisation Of Counterculture

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Living In A World That Can't Be Fixed touches on the rot that is at the root of today's social, economic and political landscape. The author examines mainstream narratives of competition, individualism and compliance as parts of this rot that is causing unhappiness, destruction, and soul-poverty in the modern world. The book lifts up counterculture as one way of combating this rot and preaches the act of civil disobedience as a tool of freedom from cultural narratives that serves just a few. WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE WORK Living In A World That Can't Be Fixed did a good job of analysing some of the causes of the world's present upheaval and the despair that comes with it. From climate problems to the rise of fanatics to the gradual decrease in empathy towards those less well-off, the book lifts the veil on how the opinions of a few get imposed on the many by way of money, indoctrination, tribalism, and deceit. If you are looking for solutions to the problems laid

The Light of Knowledge

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