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merridew22

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About merridew22

Interested in conversations about community organizing, etc.

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    Comment #49264072

    honestly, as someone in retail, it describes 90 percent of leadership

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    Comment #48184232

    I made this game with Google Gemini, learning C# from the ground up. I'm still a little shaky, but am trying to accelerate my learning through some resources to trainings at my job…

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    Comment #43731773

    This essay explains the leaps and bounds made by Indian mathematicians in topics like infinite series expansions well before the Western world caught hold of them, and references t…

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    Comment #40459678

    [flagged]

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    Comment #26499166

    WSJ won’t let me read the article

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    Comment #24772649

    >It is a really stupid idea This comment assumes that in the past, governments around the world always made decisions to placate the U.S., as if whether the U.S. approval or disapp…

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    Comment #24772565

    Thank you for this recommendation! I’ve just come to the close of Heart of the Enterprise—I’m not a manager but I’ve sure been managed, and I think Beer comes closest to describing…

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    Comment #24772552

    Huh. I’ve read Brain of the Firm, and Heart of the Enterprise, as well as Weiner’s Introduction to Cybernetics, and I found that the material is challenging but rewarding, not “she…

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    Comment #24470101

    Thank you for this!

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    Comment #24470098

    From what I understand, the economic revolution / experiment in Chile was abruptly ended due to political forces, not market forces. Basically, any socialist (sympathizing) governm…

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    Comment #24469964

    Phew! Thank goodness someone finally mentioned this. The next step is to ask to speak to a manager and I bet this conversation would have gone a lot better.

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    Comment #24466719

    I would highly recommend reading Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer. It’s the most fantastic layman’s introduction to cybernetics, written from the perspective of the economist beh…