Lavinia Marin

Tag: book review

  • Careless people – by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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    This is a book exposing the inner world of Facebook corporate: what it is like to work there, to try to change things from the inside, what are the values of Facebook leadership (spoiler alert: none), and how Facebook sees its impact on the world (spoiler alert: influence for profit, a huge business opportunity). Facebook…

  • Good writing, if you can make it

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    I recently read a very nice book that I cannot recommend highly enough: “Good Work If You Can Get It. How to Succeed in Academia” by Jason Brennan (2020) It’s written in a witty and funny style but very realistic. The reality behind the academic training programmes (aka the graduate schools) is grim: almost “80,000…