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Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (October 22, 2021)

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Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (October 22, 2021)

5 Practices to Make Your Hybrid Workplace Inclusive; Using Economics to Make Kidney Exchanges More Efficient and Fair; Women's Century-Long Journey Toward Equity; Is a Robot Coming for Your Job?

Abhas K. Jha
Oct 21, 2021
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  1. Read: 5 Practices to Make Your Hybrid Workplace Inclusive [via HBR]

  2. Read: Human History Gets a Rewrite: A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change. [via The Atlantic]

  3. Read: People Should Drink Way More Recycled Wastewater: Filtration technology produces water so pure, it would actually harm you if they didn’t put minerals back into it. [via WIRED]

  4. Read: Using Economics to Make Kidney Exchanges More Efficient and Fair. Even modest improvements to organ exchange markets can save many lives. That’s where economists and operations experts come in. [via Stanford Business School]

  5. Listen: Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin discusses"Career & Family: Women's Century-Long Journey Toward Equity" [via Alice Evans]

  6. Twitter Engineering has a much-discussed thread on how they use causal inference in their work [re this year’s Economics Prize to David Card, Josh Angrist & Guido Imbens.]

  7. Watch: Is a Robot Coming for Your Job? | Kai-Fu Lee Explains AI | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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