Fear and Gaming: Dork Adventurer
The Consolation of Philosophy: a text adventure by Jonathan Gourlay.
Source: bygonebureau.com
She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day.
As a people, our ideal is to have a future, and so long as this is so we shall never have a present.
Barbara Ehrenreich does a wonderful job in this talk, aided by the fine folks at RSAnimate, explaining the damaging effects of magical thinking.
At the urging of a friend, I dove into the show Breaking Bad earlier this summer. I was immediately hooked. As I wind down to the final episodes of the current season, I’m convinced the show was written as one big meditation on karma; karma not as some universal scorecard, but as the simple truth that we cannot escape the consequences of our actions, however big or small.
As a result, the show is gritty and often uncomfortable to watch, but completely and utterly absorbing. If you enjoy thoughtful storytelling with depth and gravity, it’s worth the time.
Source: tvovermind.com
The philosophy of minimalism, as I see it, is having exactly what you need, when you need it, for as long as you need it. It’s not about just less, it’s about just right.
A meditation on hope: Sherwin Nuland on TED.com (video)
Surgeon and writer Sherwin Nuland meditates on the idea of hope — the desire to become our better selves and make a better world. In a thoughtful 12 minutes, he explores the connection between “hope” and “change” — a fitting talk to end this week full of both.
Source: blog.ted.com
Matthieu Ricard: Habits of happiness
