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Note: There was no newsletter last week as I am traveling in Asia for a bit. But since no one e-mailed me asking where it was, I am guessing everyone survived the week!
#1 Gambling: Atlantic City became so desperate that multiple casinos cut deals with a high-roller that cost them millions of dollars over one month.
#2 Neurodiversity: I learned a lot about the wide range of personality types we have and how our traditional view of what speech should be allowed may hold some of these people back.
#3 Future of Work: Brookings finds that automation is not eliminating jobs, but decreasing the amount of income going to workers, but that may be offset by a higher share of social safety net payments to these people. The people that lose? Anyone without a job: "the share of safety net spending on families with incomes below the poverty level has fallen from 86 percent in 1990 to 53 percent in 2015"
#4 Reputation Age: This piece argues that we have shifted from an "information age" to a "reputation age" and that to evaluate the information we are given, we need to shift our thinking:
"What a mature citizen of the digital age should be competent at is not spotting and confirming the veracity of the news. Rather, she should be competent at reconstructing the reputational path of the piece of information in question, evaluating the intentions of those who circulated it, and figuring out the agendas of those authorities that leant it credibility."
#5 Laziness: This essay on "deep laziness" was a fun reflection on how we live and the point that "people seem to be surprisingly bad at using their freedom to feel good, and especially at using it to feel deeply good."
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