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links, etc Hiltzik: The truth about Lilly’s insulin price cuts - Los Angeles Times you really should pay attention to the markets when you’re evaluating the apparent “good” that a corporation is engaging in.

links, etc How to Find Joy in Your Sisyphean Existence - The Atlantic more in the vein of my personal dark philosophy … the secret to happiness is lowered expectations embrace the suck if you can’t change your company, change your company.

links, etc The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization quite possibly the best discussion i’ve seen of how (and really why) cisco eschewed technical innovation in favor of financial engineering. outlines all the notable disinvestments in differentiating technologies and acquisitions with the financial elements. if america wants to look at why it’s not a leader in many domains, perhaps a cold look at what the impacts of the financialization of nearly everything yields....

links, etc The Long, Strange Trip of ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’ 50 Years Later - The Ringer as something of a pink floyd fan through my classic rock infused youth, this triggered heading down a bit of a rabbit hole. accompanied by a listen to “the dark side of the moon”, which i hadnt’ sat down to listen to in years. the rabbit hole also included this random atlantic article about this little gem, “moonhead” played in the BBC studios for the apollo moon landing....