It’s Time to Kill the 9-to-5: Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today:f
1. Ottawa to impose national carbon tax on provinces
“Ottawa will require provinces to adopt either a carbon tax or cap-and-trade approach and to meet a federally established minimum price, Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said on CTV’s Question Period. The federal government will impose its own system on provinces that fail to meet that minimum threshold, the minister said.
“‘It’s mandatory that everyone will have to have a price on carbon,’ Ms. McKenna said Sunday. ‘If provinces don’t do that, the federal government will provide a backstop.'”
2. It’s time to kill the 9-to-5
“The 9-to-5 schedule doesn’t conform to most people’s lives, or their workflows. Sitting in a chair for eight hours straight doesn’t produce results; many studies have established the benefits of taking breaks during work. And the best hours for productivity vary from person to person”
3. How can algorithms predict what I don’t know myself?
“I once bought a graphic novel (just the one) and now Amazon won’t shut up about it, as if it’s the best thing we ever did together, sending more offers down the pipe, while I’ve moved on. My taste, I think, is not so deliberate: it expresses itself as cognitive accident.” Algorithms increasingly dictate our cultural tastes, but will they ever be able to match a human’s penchant for the instinctive and impulsive?
4. Welcome to the Dark Net
“Through the eyes of a master hacker turned security expert, William Langewiesche chronicles the rise of the Dark Net—where weapons, drugs, and information are bought, sold, and hacked—and learns how high the stakes have really become.”
+1: How Internet trolls won the 2016 presidential election.
5. I used to be a human being
“An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.”
