Pew Research Center has just published reports about political news coverage in media across the global. One such report is "Publics Globally Want Unbiased News Coverage, but Are Divided on Whether Their News Media Deliver." Sub-head says, "Deep political divides in many nations on satisfaction with news media; greatest is in the U.S." Read here.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb 1/2:
If you worry about your reputation you don't deserve to have one. Let me add just a bit to Taleb's great quote ...
True reputation is earned based on your positive CONTRIBUTIONS to entities other than yourself and your family: employers, customers, industry, society, Church, country, world, whatever.
Ask yourself: What have I discovered, invented, shared, set up, or built that will be of significant value to another entity for some time?
Contributions are not about our title (director, VP, etc). It's nice to have a big title (I would like to have one, too). At best, titles make us and our family happy. But chasing after titles could be a sign of narcissism. Titles are rarely a trustworthy certificate of contribution. This is true today when titles are increasingly achieved through bootlicking, back-stabbing, even hijacking another's job.
Contributions have longer life. They cannot be erased overnight. Five hundred years after German professor…
If you worry about your reputation you don't deserve to have one. Let me add just a bit to Taleb's great quote ...
True reputation is earned based on your positive CONTRIBUTIONS to entities other than yourself and your family: employers, customers, industry, society, Church, country, world, whatever.
Ask yourself: What have I discovered, invented, shared, set up, or built that will be of significant value to another entity for some time?
Contributions are not about our title (director, VP, etc). It's nice to have a big title (I would like to have one, too). At best, titles make us and our family happy. But chasing after titles could be a sign of narcissism. Titles are rarely a trustworthy certificate of contribution. This is true today when titles are increasingly achieved through bootlicking, back-stabbing, even hijacking another's job.
Contributions have longer life. They cannot be erased overnight. Five hundred years after German professor…
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