The short easy answer would be that the 19th century work concepts and patterns have exhausted themselves in the 21st century. However, a bit more extensive explanation might be in order, but lets not muck about it – it’s not the commute. The general assumption that, starting with millennials, all consecutive generations are plain […]
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Just a brief thought following the socio-political shock waves in US and Europe (some still pending): everybody’s talking about the global uprising of the working class – the blue collars that were bypassed by the technological revolution and can’t find their place in the new scheme of things. And I had this epiphany all of a […]
Just bloody wondering when exactly did we lose it. The human guise that is. Just trying to put my finger on that precise moment when personal cannibalism took over basic human traits of solidarity and compassion. When instead of putting a coin in a homeless person tin, we simply kick them, to speed up their reunion […]
It will probably be a very short post, in memory of a friend of mine who, I learned today, took his life in May. He is survived by a wife, and 3 kids. What promted this awful act of despair? The sheer fact that he was a 47 year old technical expert who worked for […]
I have managed to reconstruct the article (published in TIM’s November 2008 newsletter) from my personal files. Below: November Guest Author Ride the panic – sack ‘em ‘ol!!!!!! By: Vickie Zisman “Hey ho, hey ho – it’s time for you to go” and you, you and you. The whole millions and millions of YOU – […]