The Eternity of Skills: Fire We keep being told that children will need to learn completely different skills from the ones being taught now. The world, supposedly, will look completely different ever so soon. Meanwhile, many of our problems come from an ignorance of basics.…
Be a Cynic … if that’s your thing. It makes life beautiful. When others bemoan how terrible people are, you’ll know how much worse they could be, and smile. There are good sides to just about every personality. In fact, who…
Choose Your Family They say that you can’t choose your family, and that’s that. And so, in the spirit of growth and personal development, if you are not being served and supported by your family, the advice often given is to cut…
Why Do You Even Want to Be More Productive? “Lifehacking” was coined as an idea in programmer’s circles. The idea was that you could get creative with some tasks so that you could free up time for other pursuits that you would much rather be doing. And here’s just…
Welcome “Easy”. “Simple”. “Just Minutes a Day”. Life hacks are a lot like prayer. It used to be that you were sinful and had to repent. So, lest you end up in hell, you asked forgiveness by saying your 15 Holy…
Maybe Happiness Is This… Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. — Isaac Asimov
Don’t Seek Your True Self We keep looking inside, trying to change our attitudes and thinking. Coaxed and coerced by the pressure of self-help and pop psychology advice, we seek our true inner self. What a stupid enterprise. Introspection is good. Learning how you react in…
Grow, Like a Tree. Not Following a Model. There is a picture of human life from John Stuart Mill that is well-worth thinking about: We are, following this fitting metaphor, rooted in certain foundations – of biology and cultural backgrounds – but also growing over time. This growth…
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