And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.
Michael FoleyTag: work modern-life
The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: einstein academia freud institutions darwin marxism modern-life modernity academics
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: dating internet men-and-women dating-advice modern-life modernity bragging
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: slavery modern-society modern-life modernity modernity-is-a-sickness internet-addiction technology-addiction technology-enchantment
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: ethics law corruption government lawyers modern-society modern-life modernity modernity-is-a-sickness governement courts ethical-behaviour law-and-order business-ethics court-system the-supreme-court
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: fear death religion values modern modern-life narcissism modernity evangelism modern-values modernity-is-sickness
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
Edward AbbeyTag: depression modern-life cures depression-humor cure-diseases-without-medicines
There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!
Vikram RoyTag: philosophy modern-life philosophy-of-life city-life
Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.
Vikram RoyTag: philosophy modern-life philosophy-of-life city-life
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: life writing write characters water modern-life creative-writing meaninglessness meaningless paralyzed
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