Month: February 2025
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everything is a side-hustle
In the back half of the 1990s when the dot com bubble was inflating, there was a sense among the watchers that the energy and limitlessness of the times represented a “New Economy” and a “New Way of Working”. Maybe it did. Maybe it didn’t. By 2008 that optimism was gone, and the prevailing ethos…
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the hubris of idiots
Fun fact: both idiot and hubris are from Ancient Greek and they still mean today pretty much what they meant in 500 BC. Idiot had some benign meanings that it has lost, but the idea of someone who is ignorant, uneducated, or not in the know is very much there. Hubris still has the original…
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