We're all used to the usual blogs of how to do this and how to do that, what not to do and when not to do it. I thought it time to post a blog entry that was not about work. Rather one about breaking out of the daily routine to experience opinion that is fresh and thought provoking.
There is a web site that aggregates content with this kind of inspiration. It is http://bigthink.com/.
Recent articles include:
Making Marriage Work by Forgetting Love and Sex. The key to a lasting relationship, says author Gay Telese, is looking past the 'mating game's' wonted rituals and flowery ambiguities and learning to emphasize mutual freedom and respect.
New Studies: Music Makes People Nicer. Birds do it. Bees do it. But primate species don't sing and dance, except for Homo sapiens. Why is music-making part of human nature, then? Why do we enjoy singing in three-part harmony or clapping together in church, which wouldn't appeal for a single second to our chimp or orangutan cousins?
Vietnam Cum Afghanistan. American support of President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan mirrors its ill-advised support of Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam. A shortsighted and simplistic foreign policy is to blame.
And if you MUST focus on work there are a few work-related themes.
Why You Can't Work at Work. Jason Fried: "Yeah, my feeling is that the modern workplace is structured completely wrong. It's really optimized for interruptions. And interruptions are the enemy of work. They are the enemy of productivity, they are the enemy of creativity, they are the enemy of everything. But that's what the modern workplace is all about, it's interruptions."
I composed this post on my lunch hour. Am I working? Or not working?
Neil Berman | President & CEO
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