When kings know that they themselves are dying
Reading the first few pages of Joel Mokyr's book, “The gifts of Athena: Historical origins of the knowledge economy”.
Published in 2002, this book highlights an obvious phenomenon in 2022:
Reading the first few pages of Joel Mokyr's book, “The gifts of Athena: Historical origins of the knowledge economy”.
Published in 2002, this book highlights an obvious phenomenon in 2022:
I thank (a Biblical) God that I no longer have to stay under the same roof as an
I read somewhere that, long ago, an aristocrat had a lot of trouble in finding suitable servants.
Where does this blog-post live?
“You have Fear Of Negative Evaluation Syndrome,” declared the psychologist, named Dr. Fones.
Recently I noticed that many employers are hiring in Singapore.
Just a few examples:
I read in the news that Twitter wants to double the size of its engineering team, at its regional office in Singapore.
And a popular bakery is hiring a baker.
And a photography-focused organisation is hiring a Trainee in Arts Management, through a four-month contract.
But I read in Charles Eisenstein's (2021) book – titled “Sacred economics, revised: money, gift & society in the age of transition” – that jobs are obsolete.
Mainstream society seems to use Facebook as the de facto way of evaluating how trustworthy an Online Person is.
~~petals floating down
I have received a challenge to read books that satisfy certain criteria.
The political leaders of Singapore may refer to this tiny island as a Garden City, but I realised my knowledge of flowers is shockingly non-existent.