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Money talks—but not unless its owner has a loose tongue, and then its remarks are always offensive. Poverty talks, too, but nobody wants to hear what it has to say.
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“There still weren’t enough warm bodies in the area to meet demand. So companies went to extreme measures: three 12-hour-day workweeks, promises of extended holidays, biplanes towing employment ads over Stanford football games, bonuses to employees who brought in friends, open houses in which job offers were made on the spot”
― The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
― The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
“Then came the 1982 recession. The promises and prizes quickly disappeared and once again employers had a buyers’ market and the upper hand. By then, the game had changed.”
― The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
― The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
“Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“The article, titled “Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business”
― Forever Employable: How to Stop Looking for Work and Let Your Next Job Find You
― Forever Employable: How to Stop Looking for Work and Let Your Next Job Find You
“National Public Radio’s long-running show called Car Talk. The show consisted of brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi—both MIT graduates—taking calls from people with questions about their cars. Improbably enough, it was hysterically funny, especially to them. They would laugh endlessly at their own jokes.”
― Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
― Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Max’s 2024 Year in Books
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