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.: work/life balance revisited*

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Look at this tangle of thorns. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. Why would a system demand the stupidification of the mortgage professional? Whatever lingering fiduciary consciousness he may have has become a liability, given the rush to irresponsibility by his competitors. The work cannot sustain him as a human being. Rather, it damages the best part of him, and it becomes imperative to partition work off from the rest of life. Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work.

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.: luxurious times

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Look at this tangle of thorns. Sunday, June 20, 2010. Gerard Davis, Managed by the Markets. Interesting question. What answer does Davis give? June 21, 2010 1:26 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Follow me on twitter. The recruitment of human assets. The second shift (arlie hochschild). Habits of the heart (richard bellah and others.). Engaging the powers (walter wink). The space trilogy (c.s. lewis). The death and life of great american cities (jane jacobs). An engine, not a...

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.: September 2011

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Look at this tangle of thorns. Monday, September 12, 2011. I seem to start a new blog whenever I start a new season. (My choice of platform may also reflect changing Internet trends: self-hosted - xanga - blogger - tumblr). I started a new season over a year ago, but it's taken me a year to get back on my feet and write again. Please find me here: www.yellow-noise.tumblr.com. For the time being, I will keep most of this blog up, but may be deleting some of the more personal entries.). Links to this post.

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.: perfectly normal

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Look at this tangle of thorns. Saturday, February 20, 2010. He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be. One against whom there was no official complaint,. And all the reports on his conduct agree. That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,. For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. Except for the War till the day he retired. He worked in a factory and never got fired,. But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc. Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views,.

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.: moving

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Look at this tangle of thorns. Tuesday, December 13, 2011. Just a reminder to my very small handful of subscribers that this blog has been moved here to tumblr: http:/ yellow-noise.tumblr.com/. Where I will continue my usual short posts consisting of quotes, but also hope to do more substantive writing over the next few months. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Follow me on twitter. The second shift (arlie hochschild). Habits of the heart (richard bellah and others.). The second ...

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.: November 2009

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Look at this tangle of thorns. Saturday, November 28, 2009. When words hide their meaning. We rarely evaluate anything as morally right or morally wrong anymore. Those terms seem outdated. Many of us celebrate this cultural shift as it suggests freedom from oppressive social norms. But while we no longer resort to a vocabulary of right and wrong, our language can still speak with power and oppression. From Edward Skidelsky, Regular Words that think for us. This linguistic shift is revealing. Improper...

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.: January 2010

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Look at this tangle of thorns. Thursday, January 21, 2010. When words change their meaning. Arlie Russell Hochschild in The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Being professional once suggested integrity. Links to this post. Saturday, January 09, 2010. I posted a link about a year ago referencing a satirical piece. WEB DuBois’s the Philadelphia Negro, a study of blacks in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century, reminded me of this satirical piece. DuBois notes that whi...But wor...

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.: when words lose their meaning (3.5)

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Look at this tangle of thorns. Tuesday, April 24, 2007. When words lose their meaning (3.5). A snazzy catch phrase used by corporations to indicate that their employees are expected to work a lot. if the standard hours were 9 to 5, there would be no need to mention "work/life balance". A word often confused with 'career'. work means exerting effort to accomplish something. but what? We don't question authority). Is achievement confined only to the sphere of career? Flight on Thursday to arrive home at.

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.: October 2009

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Look at this tangle of thorns. Monday, October 12, 2009. It's a wonderful life revisited 2008. Excerpts from the article " The Rise and Fall of Finance and the End of the Society of Organizations. Cited from the death of the corporation? The traditional model of banking is fairly simple: Banks gather deposits from savers, who are paid interest, and lend it to borrowers, who pay it back at a higher rate of interest. Stop making your payments and force those Norwegian retirees to go back to work? Experimen...

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.: May 2010

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Look at this tangle of thorns. Sunday, May 30, 2010. 1918 article in the American Journal of Sociology by Herbert Stewart, professor at Dalhousie University in Novia Scotia. You see, I think that an act of murder is committed at that moment, when I walk into my building. Because here is a dignified, intelligent man, a man of my own age, and when I call him Jimmy, then he becomes a child, and I'm an adult. Because I can by my way into that building. Andre Gregory in 1981 Film My Dinner with Andre. An exce...