WFD | The Bewitchment of Our Intelligence
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Beacon NY | 2019–11–23 | An odd week, because I lost a few days to a monumental reaction to a flu shot, which really laid me out. Perhaps related to a shingles vaccination I got at the same time?
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I rediscovered today that Medium’s search simply doesn’t work. Google still indexes this publication well, though, so if you are searching for something here, use the Google site search, as in ‘Wittgenstein site:medium.com/work-futures’.
Quote of the Day
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
| Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Readings
Create a workplace where everyone feels comfortable speaking up | Khalil Smith, Chris Weller, and David Rock review the research of Mona Weiss around ‘employee voice’:
Weiss was studying an aspect of organizational psychology known as employee voice — the phenomenon of workers speaking up when they see or hear something that troubles them. In any given workplace, there are people with lesser voice (those…
