the ecology of happiness
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Shattered Truths, Reactions True to Culture?
So, you have been suffering through catastrophe, certainties of life have shattered along with infrastructure – now what? It’s a question that is being discussed a lot with regards to Japan (and in the context of Japanese culture), but bears wider relevance. Some of the basic ideas about ecological challenges and sustainability revolve around whether [...]
Success in a World of Skewed Competition
Whether you think “rags to riches” or “study hard, progress every day” (the latter by Mao Zedong), success seems to be the name of the game: getting rich, becoming famous, being the best, getting the girls, finding Mr. Right… Oftentimes, we go for the simplest of measures: money. Personal wealth for individuals, GDP for countries. [...]
Is There a There There?–Careers, Dreams, and Happiness
Sometimes it looks as if we had gone into a dreamworld, even as reality is ever less dreamy: Most people just toil away their lives, in the most usual ways, and even get annoyed at the very thought that things might not be as predictably stupefying as they expected them to turn out. The “promise” [...]
The Other Web of Things
There is much talk of ever more things becoming connected. I just need to look around me: My watch is actually a training computer, communicating with several sensors and my notebook, the digital camera of course needs a connection with the web (and uses the signal of GPS satellites to tag photos with the location [...]
The Greatest Challenge
As January 2011′s “National Geographic Magazine” points out, the problem with population is not so much the number of humans in this world, it is the number of people PLUS their impact. The important thing about impact is not just some number, either, it is the relationship between what you want, what you have, and [...]
Just Visiting… Tourists, Travellers and Citizens on Planet Earth
Awareness of the brevity of life is one of those things that sets humans apart from all other species: We don’t just avoid danger because it gives us pain, we (may) avoid the smokes and go for the greens because it’s supposed to make us live longer. We can even trace the beginnings of human [...]
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