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Margaret O’Mara
@margaretomara.bsky.social
Bullitt Prof of American History @UW. Teacher, speaker, author of THE CODE. Trying to write more and scroll less.
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It was such a pleasure to have this conversation with @draftingthepast.bsky.social. Come for the coffee shops, stay for the club sandwiches!

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Margaret O'Mara is one of the historians I most look up to, so I was thrilled that she agreed to join me on the new episode of Drafting the Past. She was just as smart, thoughtful, and full of practical writing advice as I'd hoped. Listen here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis... 🗃️ #writing #podcast

Podcast episode graphic with a photograph of a blond woman wearing a white button up shirt, arms crossed in front of her and smiling. The text reads "Episode 43: Margaret O'Mara."
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Going to @ahahistorians.bsky.socialwww.historians.org/annual-meeting

Silicon Valley as Place, Phenomenon, and History Hilton Union Square, Continental Ballroom 6 Chair: Margaret O’Mara, University of Washington, Seattle Panel: Leslie Berlin, Steve Jobs Archive and Stanford University Jeannette Estruth, Bard College and the Harvard Berkman Klein Center Louis R. Hyman, Johns Hopkins University Fred Turner, Stanford University
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I wish this hadn't become so topical so quickly www.programmablemutter.com/p/who-really...

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Need to manifest Andrew Carnegie’s powers of delegation (fr David Nasaw’s biography, p 184)

W HEN A.B. FARQUHAR, a Pennsylvania businessman, mentioned to Carnegie that he was always sure to be in his office by "seven in the morning," Carnegie remarked laughingly: "You must be a lazy man if it takes you ten hours to do a day's work' "What I do,' he said, is to get good men, and I never give them orders. My directions seldom go beyond suggestions. Here in the morning I get reports from them. Within an hour I have disposed of everything, sent out all of my suggestions, the day's work is done, and I am ready to go out and enjoy myself." What was most remarkable about Carnegie's newfound success as a capitalist was how little it required of him. At each stage of his business career from bobbin boy to steelmaker, he had worked less and earned more.
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this is the most 2020s paragraph i have ever read

When he’s not tweeting about e/acc, Verdon runs Extropic, which he started in 2022. Some of his startup capital came from a side NFT business, which he started while still working at Google’s moonshot lab X. The project began as an April Fools joke, but when it started making real money, he kept going: “It's like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.” He used the money he made to buy GPUs, sold his car and moved back in with his parents.
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E123 - The Making of Silicon Valley, Ep. 3 w/ @margaretomara.bsky.socialwww.americanprestigepod.com/p/e123-the-m...

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Great from @khari.bsky.social@knibbs.bsky.social@laurengoode.bsky.social@sashamtl.bsky.social@meredithmeredith.bsky.social@margaretomara.bsky.socialwww.wired.com/story/women-...

Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board
Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board

After internal chaos earlier this month, OpenAI replaced the women on its board with men. As it plans to add more seats, Timnit Gebru, Sasha Luccioni, and other AI luminaries tell WIRED why they would...

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Margaret O’Mara
@margaretomara.bsky.social
Bullitt Prof of American History @UW. Teacher, speaker, author of THE CODE. Trying to write more and scroll less.
179 followers126 following3 posts
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