Day: June 7, 2013

  • The secret to being more

    The secret to being more

    “The secret to a good life,” he told me once, “is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you’re doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.“ – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler Sometimes I want to be more. But isn’t this it?…

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  • Passivity

    Passivity

    As the public sphere encroaches and overruns the private sphere, it is necessarily harder to experiment with new tastes, opinions and beliefs, and to settle on certain ones, because the entire process is more transparent for observation and judgment. These things—devices like Google Glass, which give us immediate access to the web, and social networks,…

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