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Is Your Job Bullshit?
Before we get to that question, let’s discuss what we mean by a bullshit job. The defining feature of a bullshit job: one so completely pointless that even the person who has to perform it every day cannot convince himself there’s a good reason for him to be doing it. He might not be able… Read more
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How the Bible was Written
The earliest portions of the Old Testament are held to date from the tenth or eleventh century BCE, while the latest (the book of Daniel), comes from the Maccabean period of the second century BCE. The time-span for the New Testament is much shorter. The earliest of Paul’s letters stems frok C.50 CE; the majority… Read more
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Why Westerners Are WEIRD People
Who are you? Perhaps you are WEIRD, raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re likely rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, we WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, non-conformist, and analytical. We focus on ourselves —… Read more
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How to Raise a Child with a Temperament
Parental horror stories about placing difficult children are all too common. But in most cases, where effective understanding and intervention starts early it need not come to that. As National Institute of Mental Health psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan shows us in his book The Challenging Child, parents can actually help their children make the most of… Read more
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Tibet: A Rare Non-violent Political Struggle
In the late 1980s the big news was that peace was breaking out in Asia. One after the other, from Afghanistan to Cambodia, the killing fields happily reverted to their traditional role of feeding people. And Asia — or those regions racked by invasion and civil war — prepared for a long break from slaughter.… Read more
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The Writer’s Goal by Guy de Maupassant
[The serious writer’s] goal is not to tell us a story, to entertain or to move us, but to make us think and make us understand the deep and hidden meaning of events. By virtue of having seen and meditated, he views the universe, objects, facts, and human beings in a certain way which is… Read more
