Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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it would be useless to unmask this story

Steve Clayton: "If Microsoft was a children's story, it would be about a collection of wizards who live inside a castle. They'd invent amazing things that would be the source of progress to many people, but nobody would know where these magical inventions came from."

It would be useless to unmas…

—p.101 Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author: On Storytelling, Business, and Literature by Philipp Schonthaler
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literature is credible only if it exposes itself why/write

[...] The emergence of the novel in the sixteenth century and its development since the eighteenth century are inconceivable without the incorporation of economic and media-related conditions. In particular, the realistic novel owes its existence to the upheavals in economics and media in connectio…

—p.91 by Philipp Schonthaler
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parallel development of management theory and consulting

The emergence of modern management theory coincides with the birth of business consulting, an indication of their shared genesis in the new culture of efficiency. [...] Harrington Emerson (1906), Gilbreth Inc. (1912), and Booz Allen HAmilton (1914), were founded. The nearly parallel development of…

—p.48 by Philipp Schonthaler
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are we all building the world we all want?

[...] In a post from February 2017 with the heading "Building Global Community," Mark Zuckerberg was ostensibly reacting to the trauma caused by Donald Trump's presidency. [...] "Are we all building the world we all want?" The sentence's rhetorical test lies not in its content but rather inits form…

—p.24 by Philipp Schonthaler
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chiasmus

Storytelling and literature can also be viewed as a chiastic structure: the social power of management storytelling intersects with the social powerlessness and marginalization of literature

cool

—p.96 by Philipp Schonthaler
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