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171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are Ports Always Being Reinvented to Be Better?

Frederick winslow taylor was the first management consultent. He invented time and motion studies to speed up labor of people in routine jobs like manufacturing. His ideas were so brutal that at the watertown m armory, where it was implemented by the us Government, a bunch of them went on strike. The modern day version of his idea is called bizo m or besosism. It's tailorism combined with very sophisticated systems for observing in real time every single thing a person does. Haveall that data, you can manage people by algorithm,. Rihanna falls behind in an amazon fulfilment center, it's not there boss who's like 'he work faster back in

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