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“The Social Dilemma” and Churchill’s “Mass Effects in Modern Life”

22 February 2021 Comments 0 Comments

“The Social Dilemma” is excerpted from an Essay on Winston Churchill’s 146th birthday, 30 November 2020, published by the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For the original post, please click here.

“The Social Dilemma”: Netflix, 2020, 90 minutes.

“Is not mankind already escaping from the control of individuals? Are not our affairs increasingly being settled by mass processes? Are not modern conditions—at any rate throughout the English-speaking communities—hostile to the development of outstanding personalities and to their influence upon events: and lastly if this be true, will it be for our greater good and glory?…

Tech Start-Ups: Dan Lyons’ Eye-Opener

28 January 2017 Comments 0 Comments

Because my son works in Silicon Valley, and has start-up experience both as an employee and a founder, I found this book of interest and devoured it in three nights. It’s the story of a journalist who, at 52, tries his hand as a tech marketer, and is gravely shocked and disappointed with the culture he discovers in a start-up tech firm with hundreds of employees and bazillions in venture capital. . Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble, by Dan Lyons. Hachette Books, $15.16 from Amazon, Kindle $13.99. . Tech morphs constantly; humanity never changes. I bookmarked descriptions which reminded me of people my son has described—and people I’ve met in my own career, which is as far away as it gets from the Silicon Valley tech world.…