No Merit

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“Culture fit is really a way that power reproduces and sustains itself in an organization and silences any dissent.”

First-person experience with issues that divide “immigrant” and “convert” Buddhist sanghas in the West.

“One in ten of us says “Playing,” or being or loving or laughing or learning or any of the other things we enjoy every day that aren’t strictly winning and losing. The things we value most in life – marriage, careers, friendship, parenting – these are things you cannot win.”

“in brand strategy presentations it was totally acceptable to generalize, globalize, lob assumptions as truth, casually plagiarize, misconstrue sociological data, and worse, as long as it was persuasive and narratively coherent.” Emily characteristically sees this as fodder for her art: “It was the feeling I’d always yearned for when I’d tried to write fiction.”…

“This is a really neat little trick, when you see it clearly. Faced with growing demands to make work more dignified, company owners made the dignity of the worker contingent on doing a good job. By tying the worker’s identity to the work, they undercut any assertion that the work itself was meaningless or poor—because doing so would just reflect back on the worker’s own conception of themselves.”

"Here’s the problem: You don’t."