M'a ouvert les yeux sur certains aspects peux connus du mouvement végan et antispéciste.
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New year's resolution is to read moar books. So here I am.
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90% complete! Julien Deswaef has read 9 of 10 books.
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Effectivement commencé à lire hier soir, mais on s'en fout
Making good judgments and acting wisely when one has complete data, facts, and information is not leadership. It's not even management. It's bookkeeping.
— One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock, Peter Senge, Dee W. Hock (Page 199)
The first and paramount responsibility of anyone who purports to manage is to manage self -- one's own integrity, character, ethics, knowledge, wisdom, temperament, words, and acts. It is a never-ending, difficult, oft-shunned task. The reason is not complicated. It is ignored precisely because it is incredibly more difficult than prescribing and controlling the behavior of others.
— One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock, Peter Senge, Dee W. Hock (Page 48)
In industrial age organizations, purpose slowly erodes into process. Procedure takes precedence over product. The doing of the doing is why nothing gets done.
— One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock, Peter Senge, Dee W. Hock (Page 36)
Julien Deswaef started reading One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Peter Senge
Can't remember who told me about the "chaordic" orgunization and now I want to know more.
Julien Deswaef finished reading Petite Philosophie des algorithmes sournois by Luc de Brabandere
Petite Philosophie des algorithmes sournois by Luc de Brabandere
Ce qui n'était il y a 50 ans qu'une simple méthode de programmation est devenu aujourd'hui un moteur de la …
Ce qui n'était il y a 50 ans qu'une simple méthode de programmation est devenu …
Wikipédia est un OVNI, un objet volatile numérique illimité, qui ne vit que de dons, et est pourtant au centre de la galaxie Internet.
— Petite Philosophie des algorithmes sournois by Luc de Brabandere (Page 60)
Julien Deswaef started reading Petite Philosophie des algorithmes sournois by Luc de Brabandere
Petite Philosophie des algorithmes sournois by Luc de Brabandere
Ce qui n'était il y a 50 ans qu'une simple méthode de programmation est devenu aujourd'hui un moteur de la …
Julien Deswaef finished reading Bird by bird by Anne Lamott
Bird by bird by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott gives her perspective on the art and work of writing. The title comes from a family story when …
Julien Deswaef quoted Bird by bird by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott gives her perspective on the art and work of writing. The title comes …
We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below.
— Bird by bird by Anne Lamott (Page 168)
Julien Deswaef set a goal to read 10 books in 2024
Julien Deswaef finished reading Profit Without Oppression by Kim Crayton
EVERY PART of our current political, social, and economic systems, institutions, and policies are rooted …
I wish I had read this sooner. It should be in every hand of every Head of DEI.
EVERY PART of our current political, social, and economic systems, institutions, and policies are rooted …
Corporate Blackface
The idea that corporations publicly declare support of the Black Lives Matter movement, often with vague language and no publicly shared strategic plan, without actually committing to or implementing real, systemic change within their company to support Black employees, clients, customers, and community.
— Profit Without Oppression by Kim Crayton (Page 158 - 0)
EVERY PART of our current political, social, and economic systems, institutions, and policies are rooted …
In tech, someone can code something, put it out on the internet, and instantly there can be problems.
— Profit Without Oppression by Kim Crayton (Page 122)
Like all things in this book, the clarity and directness feels like a punch in the face.