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Host Clara Sherley-Appel interviews authors about their creative process, from the inspiration behind the books they write to specific choices they make.
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The Score with C. Thi Nguyen (opens the original)
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It seems like everything we do these days gets boiled down to metrics, from GPA to fuel efficiency to sleep quality. But what is all that data actually doing for us? And what is it doing to us? That's the question philosopher C. Thi Nguyen set out to answer in The Score . Along the way, he found himself unpacking modern notions of authority and objectivity, the difference between scoring systems in games and scoring systems in real life, and how humans construct meaning (and why we can't use num
Against Tech Oligarchy with JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine (opens the original)
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JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine are legends in the tech worker movement. For the last decade, they've been involved in almost every major organizing campaign in the tech industry. So when Clarissa told me they were writing a book about the future of tech organizing, I jumped on the chance to talk to them. Against Tech Oligarchy , which comes out on September 15th, chronicles the history of the tech worker movement and the response to worker organizing by tech bosses. In the process, it shows just ho
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