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Dawson on “The Gains of Drudgery”

Came across an interesting post this morning that related to some thoughts I’ve been having about my own personal work ethic. It takes from a piece written by William James Dawson, called The Gains of Drudgery. I’ll paste the first paragraph here, the rest is after the fold. By drudgery, I mean work that in [...]

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Interesting Article from good.is on the “Information Arms Race”

[...] The rise of microtargeting is a function of new logarithms—and computers fast enough to process them—that are able to capture all this trash and turn it into gold. Over the years, the data-mining industry has become adept at recycling information about the websites we visit and the products we buy. Rumor has it that [...]

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