Not too long ago Margaret Heffernan, a former CEO of multiple businesses, gave a talk during a TED conference about the “pecking order” of various businesses. Places where getting to the top, competing against one another, being the most productive and so on are valued above all else. There’s little (if any) time for talking…
Starting Sunday I’ll be at Porcfest XII and AltExpo XX from then (the 21st of June) to the 28th of June! In the meantime, I’ll be too swamped with organizing, speaking and hanging out (and trying my best to slack somewhere in there?) to really contribute meaningfully to this blog. Look for new posts in…
Reading, “The Right Not to Work: Power and Disability” I was struck in particular by the notion of shame and not working. Although I may be impaired in some sense because I have aspergers and am thus unable to cope with certain things better, I’m unsure I’d consider myself “disabled” in the sense that this…
Americana Meets Studies on Stress My new job is indeed very “fast paced”. There’s hardly room for a break and when I’m by myself (or might as well be) there’s almost no way to even feed myself. I’m not exactly clear on how the store I work at is legally getting away with this since…
There’s probably been a time that you thought, “Man, I’d really like to quit this job but if I do that I can’t get unemployment.” Well, first off that’s not always how unemployment even works. It depends on how you were fired and for why so for sure being fired itself wouldn’t disqualify you but…
If you ever talk to someone who is bored then they’re bound to be a little upset about it. They might even whine or maybe they’ll just stare blankly at you. Maybe they’ll ask you if you know what you want to do. There’s a lot of possibilities to entertain when we think of someone…