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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the learned helplessness of unpredictability

All the rat has to do is climb the wall to the other side and she’ll be free. Rats B and C will figure this out and clamber over to the other side pretty quickly; so will any random sewer rat.

But Rat A’s entire life has been nothing but unpredictable, inescapable suffering, and it’s crippled he…

—p.311 On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane Conclusion: Out of the Weeds (308) by Emily Guendelsberger
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tipped the balance of power in the workplace inspo/anti-capitalism

Businesses used to accept Wanda’s inefficiencies as a necessary part of their workforce—humans sometimes need to socialize, go to the bathroom, take sick days, drive Mom to a doctor’s appointment, attend funerals, stay up until four with the baby.

But at this moment, techno-Taylorism, the declin…

—p.308 Conclusion: Out of the Weeds (308) by Emily Guendelsberger