Elaine Meyer
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Elaine Meyer
On the one side, Havel wrote, was the “sterile puritanism” of the regime and, on the other, “unknown young people who wanted no more than … to play the music they enjoyed.” Dissidence arose from heeding “life, in its essence,” which “moves toward plurality, diversity, independent self-constitution, and self-organization.”
Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin—you can’t have one without the other (at least not for long).
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Every single thing I must do—any hint of a demand—grinds against me.
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Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
A lot of what’s happening with the Millennial generation and social media is connected to the changes in our relationships with people as we age and enter new phases of life. Social media seems to magnify these challenges and perhaps make them hurt more. Ie if I lose touch with an old friend but see them commenting so effusively on another friend’s
... See moreIf we consider recent findings on the prevalence of online hate speech, cyber crime and social media addiction, we could be forgiven for wondering, does the internet bring out the worst in people?
Maybe that’s not what we should be asking.
Computer-mediated communication facilitates alternative power relations and social conventions, normalising new... See more
Maybe that’s not what we should be asking.
Computer-mediated communication facilitates alternative power relations and social conventions, normalising new... See more
Nathalie Béchet • The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?
freedom involves responsibility, and there’s a part of most of us that finds responsibility frightening.
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
But because it now feels like the ball of success is completely in my court, the pressure to constantly put out content has become overwhelming, to the point where it’s the majority of what I think about with regards to my career. Every day instead of writing, I sit and think: I should post a clip of stand-up. What clip should I post? What clip
... See moreThat labor amounts to constant self-promotion in the form of cheap trend-following, ever-changing posting strategies, and the nagging feeling that what you are really doing with your time is marketing, not art. Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human —... See more
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
#creativity #focus
“The most satisfying form of freedom is not a life without responsibilities, but a life where you are free to choose your responsibilities.”