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January 22, 2013

6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person | Cracked.com

LET’S DO THIS. “Do what?” you ask. I DON’T KNOW. LET’S FIGURE THAT OUT TOGETHER, MOTHERFUCKERS. Feel free to stop reading this if your career is going great, you’re thrilled with your life and you’re happy with your relationships. Enjoy… Continue reading

January 20, 2013

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Already some profit by your labor, usefulness, & skill. Yet all find reward from your self-mastery. Strive always to elevate this craft: Resolute Mindfulness. Source: fineartamerica.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

January 14, 2013

Blessed are the Peacemakers…

January 10, 2013

Mindfulness or Fearfulness

“Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.” -William Shakespeare There is a great deal of viciousness & dis-ease in the United States of America: poverty; mental disorders; drug addiction; bigotry; compulsive obsessive consumption of sex, violence, food, celebrity, television, etc… Continue reading

January 10, 2013

More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive

Yestereve, I contemplated so much how today’s youth can survive the world wrought by their parents and grandparents, that I dreamed about it. I especially want to thank my friend Matthew for asking for further clarification. Below you will see… Continue reading

January 4, 2013

ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson

Top notch overview of this concept over at ellisnelson.com. Kudos! …Ronald Inglehart developed the idea of post materialism in the 1970s as a sociological theory to explain an ongoing transformation of individual values within a society. He argued that as western… Continue reading

January 3, 2013

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New year, new worldview: Let-go of violent resentments that hide your best possibility; embrace Loving Struggle & prosper by Open Exchange. Continue reading

January 3, 2013

12 Skills That Will Help You Thrive in 2013 – Forbes

In keeping with the idea of mindful engagement & empowerment, I am collecting a few lists & ideas to help get 2013 off to a great start for myself and my good cousins throughout the Ether. I already posted a… Continue reading

January 3, 2013

Seven steps to living the life you want – CNN.com

A nice & imaginative way of thinking about where you have been, where you are, and where you want to be. Yes, yes… it is from Oprah magazine. That does not take away the usefulness of it as a practice.… Continue reading

December 12, 2012

Robots, Robber Barons, & the Situation for Existential Innovation

A more full account from Paul Krugman on some of the topics I originally brought up yesterday. Still, can innovation and progress really hurt large numbers of workers, maybe even workers in general? I often encounter assertions that this can’t… Continue reading

December 11, 2012

Innovating Existence: Human Capital in the Global Market

In the Society of Control, we have given up a few things that marked the closing decades of the Society of Discipline. Among these is the dominance of disciplinary enclosures. That dominance led to the University as we know it… Continue reading