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L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
the deeper truth behind all this is to be found in Heidegger’s mysterious suggestion that we don’t get or have time at all – that instead we are time.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
umair haque • Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations
As partial recompense for dislike of business, I continued to read and study voraciously. It led to three questions that soon dominated my life. Time and time again I asked: • Why are individuals, everywhere, increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they are part? • Why are organizations, everywhere, increasingly
... See moreDee Hock • Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 1
In 1917, the sociologist Max Weber argued that “the fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world
Morgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things
Homo faber—Arendt’s term for man the fabricator—thinks, she says, in terms of ends and means, of “in order to” rather than “for the sake of.” In this way, he deprives himself of the capacity to see things as they are, for the sake of themselves.