My life, and all of our lives here in the “first world” are obsessed with, organized around, and circumscribed completely by the three words that make up the title of this post: me, here, now. Nowhere is this more true than in the United States, where we are famous for our collective national amnesia, and [...]
Now You Can Outsource Your Personal Life Too
Now You Can Outsource Your Personal Life Too
Fitting In
Fitting In
What The Heck Is Leisure Time?
In 2005,Valerie A. Ramey and Neville Francis authored a paper entitled A Century of Work and Leisure. In it, they look at work and leisure trends in the twentieth century. They conclude that some 70 percent of the decline in hours worked has been offset by an increase in hours spent in school. Further, contrary [...]
What Living Is
If every morning you awake to fight again a battle you know can never be won, because deep inside you you know it must be fought, then you are truly living.
How To Be An Obnoxious Twit
At Work
Refer to “we” when you mean “me”.
Brag constantly about how many hours you work, or how late you were at the office last night.
Only refer to people by their names when you are upset with them, as if you were a nanny.
With employee A, talk about your misgivings about employees B, C and D. [...]
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