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It sounds like you're skeptical about the business case, I was just pointing out that article did provide you with one. I don't know the answers to your questions. Though I agree t…

Maybe we should read it and find out, I haven't, was just quoting the article.

> The causality could easily be the other way around. Of course it could, though I've come to find this critique pretty weak when two people discuss a study that neither of them ha…

> According to a McKinsey report, nurturing organizational diversity leads to higher profit margins. The most diverse companies outperform their less diverse peers by 36% in profit…

HR is not there to solve your problems. HR is there to protect the company. It's fine to be friendly with HR (some wonderful people work there), but remember who is paying them and…

These contexts don't change the idea in rule 1, but they do change the definition of what is "necessary". There are words that "dilute" a message and are not necessary to convey th…

People don't consume healthcare "all the time" the same way they do food, housing, water. Preventive healthcare is cheaper/less work than treating illnesses that have gotten more s…

I don't think it's inconsistent. The people who advocate for free healthcare would probably also advocate for other parts of a social safety net, like food banks, food stamp progra…

Johnathan Metzl explores it a bit in his book Dying of Whiteness[0]. Here's an example of something he described in an interview[1] about the book and his other work: >Now I will s…

I'm using that to group all the things that are communicated through the musicality of the voice in addition to the words themselves. Like if a person is happy, upset, or surprised…

Sure. There's also the converse situation where people who speak in tonal languages might not develop associations with melodic patterns in speech and any strong meta-meaning, sinc…

> people never musicalize conversational speech I found this assertion confusing. Speech in say, English (just to narrow it down), is musical inherently. The pitch and rhythm of a …