Recent Comments
-
Recent Posts
- Some Reflections on the Revolution in Propaganda
- The Cooperative Principle in Conversation versus the Prejudice in Silence
- Scripts, Stories, Narratives, Filling in the Gaps without Resorting to Fake News and other Propaganda Techniques
- The Continued Toleration of Illiteracy
- The Rationality of Interdependence vs. Independence (+ Self-Reliance + Inter-Reliance)
- The Rationality of Uncertainty
- The Rationality of Literacy
- It’s Not What You Think It Is
- The Irrationality of Irrationality
- For some, we get lost in media
- What are you going to do about it?
- Should You be Concerned about the Rate of Literacy if Over 99% Are Illiterate?
- The Rationality of Intimacy
- You can reach me at the Internet
- The Rationality of Buzz
- Voluntourism
- Global Languages (and/or Classification Schemes) + Generic Top Level Domains (TLDs)
- Auctions + Markets for Domains, Domain Names + TLDs
- Anti-Dis-Establishment-Arian-Ism + AntiDisInterMediaTion
- The Rationality of Algorithms: Facebook Algorithm, Google Algorithms or No Algorithm at All?
- The Spectre of Populism
- The Unanswered Questions
- The Domain Name is the Medium
- Sign My Guestbook + The Rationality of the Written Word
- The Rationality of Ignorance
- Don’t Listen to One Single Piece of Good Advice — Listen to Many
- Spam Index, Shopping Catalog & Co. – An Introduction to Anti-Social Rationality
- Rational Media + Literacy
- The Big Data Rationality of Large Numbers: Quantitative Statistics + Fanatical Delusions
- The Rationality of Large Numbers
- The Ubiquity of the Text Box (excursus)
- Literacy and Machine Readability: Some First Attempts at a Derivation of the Primary Implications for Rational Media
- Fundamental Principles of Rational Media
- First Essay on Rational Media
- Rational Media, Alternative Media + Mainstream Agendas
- The Rise of Rational Media
- Sense-Making vs. Sense-Unmaking
- Dumb
- There is No Such Thing as Context-Free Meaning
- Limitations in the WordPress Notifications algorithm
- In Our Brains…
- Do You Want To Be Right Or Do You Want To Be Happy?
- Propaganda + Subjectivity in Retard Media
- More about Rewards
- Rewarding Life May Be Counter-Productive When Rewards Undermine Habits
- Something to Hide: Nothing to Show
- The Complacent Illiterate Generation
- The Web Doesn’t Change Much from Day to Day
- If you thought Apple Ads Block was going to lead to the demise of Retard Media, then think again
- Explicit Thoughts
Tags
- advertising
- brand
- brands
- business
- communication
- community
- data
- domain
- domains
- economics
- economy
- idea
- ideas
- illiteracy
- illiterate
- information
- information retrieval
- Internet
- language
- life
- literacy
- literate
- love
- marketing
- media
- natural
- natural language
- nature
- online
- propaganda
- publishing
- rational media
- remediary
- retard media
- science
- search
- social
- society
- technology
- web
- website
- websites
- Wisdom of the Language
- writing
Categories
Archives
- December 2018
- January 2018
- April 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
Meta
Tag Archives: work
Rewarding Life May Be Counter-Productive When Rewards Undermine Habits
A new friend of mine recently asked “how do you translate ‘rewarding’ into German?” I found it was fascinating that this was difficult to answer. We had been talking (and continue to talk) about how language and culture are closely … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in remediary.com, Uncategorized
Tagged business, community, culture, Deutsch, economic, economics, engagement, Englisch, English, German, habit, habits, language, life, Ludwig Wittgenstein, practice, reward, rewarding, rewards, theory, translate, translation, work
Comments Off on Rewarding Life May Be Counter-Productive When Rewards Undermine Habits
Public Transportation in the United States of America
I was traveling in the USA this summer, and after I had a very negative experience due to an incompetent worker in the public transportation industry I vowed I would write a blog post about it. Actually, I sort of … Continue reading →
Continue reading
Posted in remediary.com, Uncategorized
Tagged economy, employment, market, minimum wage, oil, public transportation, transportation, unemployment, United States, United States of America, wage, wages, work, workers
Comments Off on Public Transportation in the United States of America
The Harvard Business Review Ideacast reporter Sarah Green interviews Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center of WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, who cites Mary Blair-Loy’s “work-devotion schema”, thereby emphasizing the central role of devotion in the meaning of life, which I wrote about several months ago
Here’s an excerpt from the interview: [T]he work devotion schema, [Mary Blair-Loy] found, communicated that work should be the central focus of your life, unencumbered by family responsibilities; that it entailed overlays of deep emotional ties with your work; that … Continue reading →
Continue reading
Posted in remediary.com, Uncategorized
Tagged balance, culture, devotion, family, life, schema, schemas, society, work, work-life, work-life balance
Comments Off on The Harvard Business Review Ideacast reporter Sarah Green interviews Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center of WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, who cites Mary Blair-Loy’s “work-devotion schema”, thereby emphasizing the central role of devotion in the meaning of life, which I wrote about several months ago
Self-Reliance 2.0
imitation is suicide Recitations are mundane — there is not one iota of life in them, there is no spark whatsoever. Truths which we hold to be self-evident need not be incessantly replayed in never-ending refrains — lest they become … Continue reading →
Continue reading
Posted in remediary.com, Uncategorized
Tagged collaboration, collaborative, create, creativity, life, market, marketplace, markets, meaning, sefl-reliance, work
Comments Off on Self-Reliance 2.0