Jun 13

“Performance pay, on the model encouraged by the 1993 reform, has been tested.

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“Performance pay, on the model encouraged by the 1993 reform, has been tested. What we’ve learned is that it rewards not performance, but shortsightedness, excessive risk, and even fraud, and that the consequences go well beyond radical inequality to include the kind of crisis that nearly took down the economy in 2008, abrupt layoffs and plant closings to meet shareholder expectations, corners cut on products that risk consumer safety (as seen at General Motors), and desperate attempts to evade the costs of environmental and workplace safety regulation.”

So what might a different kind of corporation look like?

https://evonomics.com/milton-friedman-doctrine-wrong-heres-rethink-corporation/

Jun 12

This is a kind of story I like very much: a grim setting with characters who aren’t grimdark antiheroes, but…

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This is a kind of story I like very much: a grim setting with characters who aren’t grimdark antiheroes, but underdog battlers against the cruel and powerful. It reminds me of Daniel Swensen’s work in that way, and also in that it’s extremely well done.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=1662029319

Jun 11

Some of these sentences are only difficult to understand because they lack punctuation.

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Some of these sentences are only difficult to understand because they lack punctuation. If you know how to punctuate, your communication becomes much clearer.

And if you don’t know how to punctuate, may I recommend my book The Well-Presented Manuscript: Just What You Need to Know to Make Your Fiction Look Professional?

Via Laura Gibbs.

Originally shared by World Economic Forum

“Most of these sentences were invented by psycholinguists to break the human mind.” Can you work them out?

http://wef.ch/1YejVcM