Sunday Reads 20.03.22
Each week I come across fascinating articles within my network and my regular news feeds. Some of them I agree with others, I don’t, but wherever I stand on the issue I find a well written and informative piece always good brain food. Enjoy, these SundayReads.
”Let me be clear about terms: A grudge is not a resentment. Sure, they’re made of the same material — poison — but while resentment is concentrated, a grudge is watered down, drinkable and refreshingly effervescent, the low-calorie lager to resentment’s bootleg grain alcohol.”
”Much of the current debate appears to spring not from the academic texts, but from fear among critics that students—especially white students—will be exposed to supposedly damaging or self-demoralizing ideas.”
”Well-governed companies have a process for this. It is called the board mandate. It is rather like the differential in a car’s axle, ensuring that the company is responsive to conflicting outside pressures while continuing to steer consistently. There are no marks for anything like this in the B Corp scoring system.”
“The modern European economic miracle was the result of contingent institutional outcomes. It was neither designed nor planned. But it happened, and once it began, it generated a self-reinforcing dynamic of economic progress that made knowledge-driven growth both possible and sustainable.”
“A young man fleeing war in Sudan and a young woman evacuating Ukraine crossed into Poland at the same time. They had very different experiences.”