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This kind of clubbishness seems to be especially congenial to men, who seem to enjoy the ritual aspects offered by formal speeches, songs, toasts and parades that require a level of self-discipline, attention to a master of ceremonies and willingness to be silent – especially so when these groups are all-male.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Alternative Prosperity: Reframing The "Good Life"
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What if you and your friends had your own little internet, the size of a room? No outside influence, no outside information, no viral trends, no content-suggesting algorithms; just the machines and the people within the physical space. What would you do on your little internet?
An Internet the Size of a Room: Berlin Review
Lots of pain at work comes from being someone else. It’s only when we find or create a job in which we can truly be ourselves, that we realize how much time we actually lost or wasted trying to be (or become) someone else. And once your job is all about being you, becoming better at your job suddenly turns into becoming better at being you.... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Pleasure Activism
To keep critical feedback in the first category, the research tells us that it should have five elements: the care of the recipient in mind; respectful delivery; good intentions; a pathway to improvement; and appropriate targeting of the recipient’s needs.
How to Take—And Give—Criticism Well
That might have as much to do with the fact that men’s friendships are dominated, at the best of times, by an out-of-sight-out-of-mind effect.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
mentioned during dinner party week 14 / 2024
As a political theorist, hooks believed fiercely in the power of naming systems—her recurring phrase, in defining what we are up against, was “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.”5 But she was far more ambivalent about the impulse to attach identity signifiers to our beings, to brand ourselves as a this, or a that. In her landmark 1984 book,
... See moreNaomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
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