Andreas Vlach
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Andreas Vlach
I have often heard it said of social media: ‘when you cannot see the product being advertised, it’s because you are the product.’
Our preferences and opinions become part of the programme, encouraging certain types of thoughts and behaviours in others. The ‘like’ button is integral to the function of social platforms and yet what purpose does it
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An important thing that explains a lot of things is that good news takes time but bad news happens instantly
collaborativefund.com • Lots of Overnight Tragedies, No Overnight Miracles
Vielleicht ist es eine Idee eine Arete für den Verein zu machen und das dann auch für Sitzungen und Reviews zu nutzen.
2050 wird das dominante Thema in Deutschland nicht mehr sein, wie viele Autos ich habe, sondern: Wie gesund bin ich? Wie glücklich? Wie gut sind meine sozialen Verbindungen?
Karoline Meta Beisel • „Man muss aufpassen, womit man seinen Geist täglich füttert“
By reading, by paying attention in class and in practice, by working, I strengthened my focus. By doing all of that, I strengthened my ability to be present and not have a wandering mind.
Kobe Bryant • The Mamba Mentality
Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness. Katherine Henson...
Quotes and
“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.” —Carl Jung
The way of the tourist is to consume; the way of the pilgrim is to be consumed. To the tourist the journey is a means. The pilgrim understands that it is both a means and an end in itself. The tourist and the pilgrim experience time differently. For the former, time is the foe that gives consumption its urgency. For the latter, time is a gift in... See more
The Tourist and the Pilgrim
“Bad times! Hard times!” — this is what people are saying. But let us live well, and the times shall be well. We are the times. Such as we are, such are the times.
—St. Augustine of Hippo, a sermon on prayer during the slow collapse of the Roman Empire
Life Hacks and Our Times