Typically the first question that is asked when you meet someone new in a social setting is, “what do you do for a living?”. I was bombarded with this question all day long as I was in a room with nearly 70 strangers. It’s such an awkward question to answer because Read more…
Twitter is noisy. Facebook is invasive. Tumblr is nicely lost to the world. was originally published on Philosophical Engineering
How do I know if I am affected by a particular government law? When I failed to attain health insurance during my unemployment months last year, and found out from this year’s taxes the hard way of not having health insurance, was that my own ignorance? Who was I supposed Read more…
“What do I want to be when I grow up?” That question doesn’t necessarily lose it’s imaginative possibilities even being older now, but what ends up becoming a reality is the necessary interaction of people while trying to navigate the desirable behaviors of my own self. And there are two Read more…
fritzbooks: http://www.meetup.com/The-Moral-Inquiries/events/232257958/ We decided on July 26th to have a practical workshop on civic focusing. By this, we mean focusing ourselves –or our lives – in what we need to do or to be as a politicized member of our community. To this end, we developed several Read more…
Learning Styles We are all different when we learn… but how many of us actually know what sort of learner we are?
Here they are, for next week’s interactive Meetup (come with a notebook and something to write, draw or paint with): We decided on July 26th to have a practical workshop on civic focusing. By this, we mean focusing ourselves –or our lives – in what we need to do or Read more…
Work to Need fritzbooks: “Work to need”. Makes me wonder how to restructure the seemingly arbitrary expectations of defining when we are supposed to “work”. These “rules” that define our day, our weeks, and even our years working. And yet it’s the self fulfilling work that motivates any individual. But Read more…