Welcome to the return of Sunday Letters, the weekly newsletter on life, work, and the pursuit of happiness. This week, I’m reaching back into the archive and a short piece I wrote several years ago after reading On Writing by Annie Dillard. For today’s issue, I have taken a few hours to run an edit over things and add additional thoughts. I’ll do this for the next few weeks and months in an effort to revitalise the older posts and clean up some items of lesser quality. Articles such as this one deserve another airing and so I’m sharting with you today. Thanks for being a subscriber.
Sunday Letters
Albert Einstein on The Need For A Socialist Economy
In this morning’s Sunday Letters, I’m republishing in full, Einstein’s 1949 essay “Why Socialism?” When we consider the extent of the global environmental crisis, the new cold war between the US and Russia on one front and China
Here’s The Problem
Concisely as possible, this is the most significant contributing factor to humanity’s problems as far as I see it. We forgo our right to self-direction and determination and subjugate ourselves to the desires and whims of a few dominant others. These others are almost always men, and they are psychopathic. They are juvenile, narcissistic, and […]
Intelligence: You Either Have It, Or You Don’t
Intelligence, whatever way we wish to discuss it, is a highly-regarded faculty, but it’s problematic. Researchers consider the term intelligence to be too broad to be helpful in understanding human behaviour and personality. The word simply does not allow us to discuss the depth and breadth of human abilities–or indeed their growth and development–in any meaningful way. But that doesn’t stop people from using it to pigeonhole other people
Less Is More?
Unworking Issue 006
Get To Work
And so this raises the question; will I care when I’m gone? If I do not do the work or, indeed, never find it, or do work that I think is worthy of my time and effort and yet comes to nought, will I be remorseful? When I’m lying between the sheets in my final hours, I will likely be empty for not doing it.
Starving The Algorithm
Unworking Issue 004