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From the Neuron to the Coffee House to the Internet: Steven Johnson’s TED Talk on How Ideas Have Sex
Great, great TED talk. From the neuronal network in your skull to the coffee house to the Internet, the idea world is rhizomatic.
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“Republicans make you work for your money, and try to let you keep it.”
This was in The New York Times this past week: “Democrats are for a bunch of freeloaders in this world as far as I’m concerned,” said Gari Day, 63, an Avis bus driver from suburban Detroit. “Republicans make you work … Continue reading
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David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” 2005 Kenyon College Commencement Address
Wallace is totally the Buddha in this speech, preaching attentional choice, vigilance in looking, and imaginative awareness. It’s a shame he hit bottom in 2008 and, in the grip of a severe depression (a recurrent scourge that plagued his life), … Continue reading
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Assert Yourself
The below video is a nice introduction to existentialism. And so is this brief passage written by historian Carlin Barton in her great book, Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones (University of California Press 2001, 31-32): On the morning of … Continue reading
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Measure Twice, Saw Once
This is in the business section of the Los Angeles Times today: Managers spend nearly 17% of their working hours dealing with poor performers, according to a report from staffing firm Robert Half International. That’s basically a full day a week that could … Continue reading
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Follow Your Heart (Maybe)
In the below video, Alan Watts makes a provocative point: do what you really want. If you fail at it, then you can money grub and settle later, or you can even starve to death. Better to live a short life going … Continue reading
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You Don’t Know What Work Is
John Churchill has a contrarian take on work: Is there no intrinsic value ─ no good in itself ─ in the work of a life that does not rise, in its own span, above the level of the mop and … Continue reading
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Tim Tebow’s Work Ethic
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Thinking about Entropy
One way to think about entropy is as a measure of disorder in a system: where disorder is high, entropy is high; where disorder is low, entropy is low. I don’t have the exact quote in front of me, but the … Continue reading
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Be nice to your co-workers (or Darwin may give you the smackdown)
In a New York Times science article this morning is a superb reason for being nice to your tribe of fellow co-workers (and even to the people in the competing tribes around you): A team of anthropologists led by Kim S. Hill … Continue reading
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Image of a Working Mother
Marc Chagall:
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Fight or Flight? Two Ways to Read Matthew Arnold’s Poem, “Requiescat” (1849)
If you’re a temperamentally anxious and emotionally tumultuous person, as I have been all of my life, the Matthew Arnold poem below might give you a bit of life perspective. But it also depends on how you read it. One of … Continue reading
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Halloween is Coming
And this is very, very scary. This is how I feel about my blogging sometimes.
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