Thursday, January 30, 2014
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
eScienceCommons: Psychologists document the age our earliest memories fade
eScienceCommons: Psychologists document the age our earliest memories fade
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09658211.2013.854806
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09658211.2013.854806
Friday, January 24, 2014
"Do what you love” is the mantra for today’s worker
"Do what you love” is the mantra for today’s worker. Why should we
assert our class interests if, according to DWYL elites like Steve Jobs,
there’s no such thing as work?
In the Name of Love | Jacobin
referenced by observer article
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/20/do-what-you-love-good-or-bad-advice
Full Article :
Many 20 and 30-somethings (if not those older and younger than that)
grew up hearing the advice that all you need to do in life is "find your
passion". The implication is that if you "do what you love" (in
shorthand: DWYL), success – and presumably happiness and money – would
follow.
People like Apple's Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark
Zuckerberg were held up as examples (if not gurus) of this "DWYL" trend,
alongside people who quit investment banking jobs to become cheese
farmers, plumbers or yoga entrepreneurs.
But writer and art history scholar Miya Tokumitsu
argues that this romanticized notion of the working world is a
dangerous fallacy. It's the modern-day equivalent of the emperor's new
clothes myth.
In a much shared commentary for Jacobin magazine (later re-printed on Slate.com), Tokumitsu writes:
DWYLShe points out that the vast
is a secret handshake of the privileged and a worldview that disguises
its elitism as noble self-betterment. According to this way of thinking,
labor is not something one does for compensation but is an act of love.
If profit doesn't happen to follow, presumably it is because the
worker's passion and determination were insufficient. Its real
achievement is making workers believe their labor serves the self and
not the marketplace.
majority of jobs have no place in the DWYL world because they are "done
out of motives or needs other than love". Most people don't grow up
wanting to clean up after others or work in low-end retail or fast food
jobs. The idea that everyone gets to choose what they want to do only
applies to the wealthy. She also notes that professions such as
journalism and academia have eroded over time because people are
supposed to accept lower and lower pay in return for being lucky enough
to "follow their passion".
Thursday, January 16, 2014
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
January 1914: suffragettes, blizzards, exploration – but no hint of war
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/04/january-1914-no-hint-war
The robots are coming. Will they bring wealth or a divided society?
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/04/robots-future-society-drones
Saturday, January 4, 2014
The end of Cuba's classic cars
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/03/cuba-classic-car-streets-rule-change-new-purchase
The Guardian : 12-new-years-resolutions-that-should-be-abandoned
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jan/03/12-new-years-resolutions-should-be-abandoned
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