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Indicate precisely what you mean to say…

The book I was reading is titled Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete, here is one excerpt: Michael: What was [Allan] Bloom like when you first met him? Seth: He was supersensitive to people’s defects. He had antennae out, he knew exactly… Robert: People’s weak spots? Seth: Oh yes, it was extraordinary. Ronna: You […] The post Indicate precisely what you mean to say… appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesMorally judging famous and semi-famous peoplePod...

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Society

Is Your Social Life Missing Something? This Is For You.

My motivation for this episode is personal. One of my resolutions this year is to spend more time hosting and to make those gatherings more meaningful. I think a lot of us wish we had better social lives and a stronger feeling of community around us. But it’s hard. We’re busy, we’re tired, and social planning and hosting can feel like just more work. So I asked Priya Parker on the show to help. Parker is the author of “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters” and a wonderful Subs...

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Technology

Reimagining ERP for the agentic AI era

The story of enterprise resource planning (ERP) is really a story of businesses learning to organize themselves around the latest, greatest technology of the times. In the 1960s through the ’80s, mainframes, material requirements planning (MRP), and manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) brought core business data from file cabinets to centralized systems. Client-server architectures defined…

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