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Beyond McMindfulness
The rush to secularize and commodify mindfulness into a marketable technique may be leading to an unfortunate denaturing of this ancient practice, which was intended for far more than helping executives become better focused and more productive.
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Russell Brand Must Be Doing Something Right
Russell Brand has stepped into the political arena and is being made to pay a heavy price for it. Ever since his first and by now legendary Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman a year ago, the comedian and entertainer has come under attack from all and sundry, with words such as 'irresponsible', 'naive', self aggrandising', 'incoherent', and even 'bumhole' being thrown at him like verbal hand grenades.
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Economists Say We Should Tax The Rich At 90 Percent
America has been doing income taxes wrong for more than 50 years. All Americans, including the rich, would be better off if top tax rates went back to Eisenhower-era levels when the top federal income tax rate was 91 percent, according to a new working paper by Fabian Kindermann from the University of Bonn and Dirk Krueger from the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Books And Music That Shaped Steve Jobs
I like living at the intersection of the humanities and technology, LSD, Bauhaus and Zen Buddhism shaped Apple's pioneering products as much as anything that took place on the assembly lines. They were among Jobs' greatest influences and they shaped his attitudes toward design, business and innovation. // TL;DR: Jobs read Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
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What Kurt Vonnegut Can Teach You About Writing
In my debut novel, 15-year-old Alex Woods sets up a Kurt Vonnegut reading group with the hope of discussing all or some of the following: morality, ecology, time travel, extraterrestrial life, twentieth-century history, humanism, humour, et cetera.
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Facebook Hasn't Even Begun To Exploit Everything It Knows About You
When Mark Zuckerberg addressed Facebook investors last week, he outlined a goal that sounded more like a philosophical quest than a business plan: A major priority for Facebook, he said, was “understanding the world.”
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My Dad, Kurt Vonnegut
When I am asked, What was it like living with your father? My tongue swells up and I squeak out words like, thrilling or complicate...
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Key Inequality Measure The Highest Since The Great Depression
You know inequality is getting bad when it's making a Swiss bank uncomfortable. The ratio of wealth to household income in the U.S., a measure of ineq...