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colin finished reading Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II, conveying the …
colin finished reading Gravitas by Amy Berkowitz
Frank, conversational, and darkly funny, Gravitas examines the tendency of MFA programs to teach women …
colin started reading Gravitas by Amy Berkowitz
Gravitas by Amy Berkowitz
Frank, conversational, and darkly funny, Gravitas examines the tendency of MFA programs to teach women that their lives aren’t worth …
colin rated You Deserve a Tech Union: 5 stars
You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte
There's a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers-designers, engineers, writers, and many others-have learned that when they …
colin finished reading You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte
You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte
There's a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers-designers, engineers, writers, and many others-have learned that when they …
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There's a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers-designers, engineers, writers, and many …
There's a term for this in economics: deskilling. As a new technology is introduced to an industry, it may be able to complete tasks that had traditionally been performed by human workers. And as the technology matures, it can be overseen by fewer workers, which gradually lowers wages and may eliminate jobs. In other words, the demand for skilled labor is gradually reduced-or eliminated altogether. Once the technology reaches a certain critical mass, workers are moved into roles they would traditionally have been seen as overqualified for, while less skilled workers are driven from the market altogether. Every worker is, quite literally, de-skilled by automation.
— You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte (Page 116)
colin started reading You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte
You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte
There's a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers-designers, engineers, writers, and many others-have learned that when they …
colin started reading Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II, conveying the …
colin wants to read The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
Someone on a podcast (I think Jamelle Bouie) called the Nazis an apocalyptic death cult and that's pretty accurate, but so many of the ones in charge were also total buffoons.
Starting the year in extreme Dad Book Mode
colin finished reading Bomber by Len Deighton
Bomber by Len Deighton
The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of an allied bombing …
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The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour …
What if war was bad?
colin started reading Bomber by Len Deighton
Bomber by Len Deighton
The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of an allied bombing …