Looking for gemstones in the gutter
Just the other day, I’d mentioned to a friend that Steven Pinker was one of those rare people whose ideas couldn’t be appreciated by proxy, such as through the opinions of other authority figures, but…
sociology
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The dignity of human labor
My Twitter friend and compatriot @zeusisdead made a good, bristling case for why we shouldn't celebrate India's Mars Orbiter mission's frugality. Here's a telling excerpt from his piec…
The capacity to notoriety of work
Why is it considered OK to flaunt hard work? Will there come a time when it might be more prudent to mask long hours of work behind a finished product and instead behave as if the object was conceived…