“If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead.” - Frank Gelett Burgess, American writer, poet.
But to change an opinion, one must first of all question the status quo. Is what I think objectively true, or am I thinking subjectively?
Not [...]
On Friday I went back to the place where I spent the last 7 years of my working life. My erstwhile colleagues insisted we have a proper farewell.
I was awake at 3am as usual and, being just too lazy to get out of bed, I thought about what I would tell them in my final [...]
Visit the link below, it illustrates the philosophy that life depends largely on how you look at it.
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/onemanstrash.htm
When you have seen it, ponder the thought: what is my reality?
I received a comment on my leaving the company that made me think.
An erstwhile colleague said that my problem was that I was “too far in front of the company”. Well, let that be a lesson to you, you far-in-front bugger!
I did go online to compare how the other media companies in the country are [...]
Seth Godin has another of his interesting views that give an unexpected insight into a common matter.
It can be useful in other aspects of life.
And all it is about, is that you see a matter from a different angle.
* Tomorrow’s post deals with a reason for me losing my job as seen by an erstwhile [...]
What does Gin in the 1800’s have to do with the Internet?
Anyone interested in what is happening in the world of information and participation or Web 2.0 must watch this video by Clay Shirky of Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet at shirky.com
(takes a while to download over a modem but worth the wait if [...]
I had the experience three times the past two weeks that I would give people information that I thought could benefit them only to find that their welfare and that of their business was subject to their need to be heard.
In the first instance I gave information to a superior (the one in the first [...]
I and my wife travelled over the weekend to meet the folks halfway as my dad had slaughtered chickens and we had to receive our share of the harvest.
As we live 400km apart, we each usually travels halfway to make it easier for the other.
We encountered road works on the way and had to pass [...]
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