Pritish Nandy puts forth some great points in his recent post entitled ‘The deficit of trust’… I live on the 24th floor of a well secured multi storied building no one can enter without an ID card. Yet how often have I left my front door open? Never. How often have I left my car …
Tag Archives: Society
Making Sense of the Internet
“Everything you need to know about the internet” is a brilliant essay from The Guardian that is not only instructive but also engaging in its content and significant in its scope. (Thanks, BoingBoing, for the pointer.) Here are just the key points, though you will need to read the entire post if you want to …
The Great Indian Tragedy
According to the backgrounder by The Economic Times: A lethal plume of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas escaped from a storage tank at the Union Carbide pesticide factory in the early hours of December 3, 1984 in the central Indian city of Bhopal. Government figures put the death toll at 3,500 within the first three days …
Who You Are
Thanks to Jin, I discovered a gem of a guest post on the excellent GapingVoid blog. In “You, Less Than”, Pamela Slim presents her views on finding an identity that is distinct and true to your self. Circumstances can cause you to question who you are… A boss writes you a stinging performance review… A reader …
Then What?
Another brief but thought-provoking post from Seth Godin, called Sad Tim: At the post office the other day, a guy wearing a beautiful handmade scarf finishes his transaction and starts away from the counter. A small nail holding the molding apparently isn’t hammered in all the way. It catches the scarf, pulls the threads and …