"Work I disliked the most was work I wasn't suited for..." The author offers the stories of many men and woman, herself included, who have "revised" their careers and in the process have developed healthy self actualizing personalities. She challenges all of us to make conscious choices that will enable us to express ourselves distinctively through our work. She gives concrete suggestions for building inner confidence and self-esteem.
Added by: drazhar | Karma: 1454.87 | Other | 10 October 2014
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"We're asking ourselves how far are we willing to engineer the world and ourselves?" In The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, Diane Ackerman writes about the technological innovations that are altering our lives on a daily basis. She covers topics such as chimeras (blends of human/animals), robots, artificial intelligence (AI), 3D printing, tablets, food production, greenhouse gases... just to touch the surface. She asks the question: is nature "natural" anymore, and what does that mean. One item she mentions, regarding robots and AI, is that any trauma they experience, they don't have the ability to forget.
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves
Added by: avrodavies | Karma: 1114.22 | Other | 4 October 2014
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Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices have become important ways in which we understand ourselves. Jill Walker Rettberg analyses these and related genres as three intertwined modes of self-representation: visual, written and quantitative. Rettberg explores topics like the meaning of Instagram filters, smartphone apps that write your diary for you, and the ways in which governments and commercial entities create their own representations of us from the digital traces we leave behind as we go through our lives.
An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that you're as deluded as the rest of us. But that's OK - delusions keep us sane. You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of self-delusion. It's like a psychology class, with all the boring parts taken out, and with no homework.Based on the popular blog of the same name, You Are Not So Smart collects more than 46 of the lies we tell ourselves everyday, including: Dunbar's Number - Humans evolved to live in bands of roughly 150 individuals, the brain cannot handle more than that number.
Added by: iloveenglishtips | Karma: 3583.10 | Fiction literature | 23 August 2012
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This book ushers you into many worlds, all of them our world. It is full of voices, sounds, and people. Stay with them, and they will stay with you. The stories here represent eight tenths of a year. A year that kept slipping, yet also kept giving.Their writers gave them freely, and we do, too.Like all stories, they work in a thousand ways. Some lull, some lure. Some pinch, some stretch.Some are like a thicket, some a formal garden; others seem like valleys slick with rain. All replenish and reward.
