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

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as culture has come to matter more

[...] As the information-processing capacity of firms has grown in importance--as culture has come to matter more--those working in successful firms have come to enjoy a critical advantage over those working elsewhere.

—p.115 The Wealth of Humans: Work and its Absence in the Twenty-First Century The Firm as an Information-Processing Organism (97) by Ryan Avent
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digital tools for keeping an eye on workers archive/dissertation

The digital revolution makes it far easier and cheaper to keep an eye on certain sorts of workers and assess their performance. As a result, the boundaries of the typical firm have shifted. [...]

—p.102 The Firm as an Information-Processing Organism (97) by Ryan Avent
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succor

The less succour they receive from existing political institutions, the more open individual workers are likely to be to radical political institutions that offer the possibility of political expression and economic power

which is a good thing imo

—p.96 The Virtues of Scarcity (81) by Ryan Avent
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