Last night i saw an interview with Alain de Bottom discussing some topics from his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. Alain gives great insight into the psyche on job satisfaction and finding meaning in our lives. Below is a small snippet from the full transcript from his interview on ABC’s Lateline.
“Well, like anyone, [...]
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April 24, 2009
Alain de Botton – The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
April 8, 2009
Rupert Murdoch wants you (and your money)
“People are used to reading everything on the net for free, and that’s going to have to change”, Rupert Murdoch said last week.
You mean we pay for internet access, have to scroll through the billions of adverts you cleverly place inbetween paragraphs (and make millions off), and you want us to pay you for the [...]
March 23, 2009
Porn + Sex + Celebs = your local news
In todays “hit driven” e-commerce, it’s no suprise that certain “key words” are plugged as much as possible to spark peoples interest… despite not really being news worthy at all. It’s quite a sad state of affairs, but i guess all we can do is boycott as many of these news/gossip sites run my mega-rich [...]
March 19, 2009
Kremlin to Pitch New Currency at G20
Russia has proposed a number of measures to conquer the current financial and economic crisis and to rebuild the world financial system in its aftermath.
These proposals have been sent to the leaders of the G20 countries, the Commonwealth of Independent States and various international organisations.
The Kremlin published its priorities Monday for an upcoming meeting of [...]
March 12, 2009
See what 1 Trillion Dollars looks like!
The term “billion” is thrown around the media these days like it’s nearly worthless, it’s hard to get your head around what that is in real terms. Simple answer is more than you’ll ever see in your life time, however this guy has used Google Sketchup for us lay-men to visualize just how much real [...]
