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| A talk from Medium about a [[https://medium.com/business-management/df4b03f67d69|Mindful Workplace]] | A talk from Medium about a [[https://medium.com/business-management/df4b03f67d69|Mindful Workplace]] |
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| | <blocquote>"why we disconnect matters: We can continue in today’s mode of treating disconnection as a way to recharge and regain productivity, or we can view it as a way to sabotage the addiction tactics of the acceleration-distraction complex that is Silicon Valley. The former approach is reactionary but the latter can lead to emancipation, especially if such acts of refusal give rise to genuine social movements that will make problems of time and attention part of their political agendas - and not just the subject of hand-wringing by the Davos-based spirituality brigades. Hopefully, these movements will then articulate alternative practices, institutions, and designs. If it takes an act of unplugging to figure out how to do it, let’s disconnect indeed. But let us not do it for the sake of reconnecting on the very same terms as before. We must be mindful of all this mindfulness."</blockquote> |
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| | http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2014/02/mindfulness-racket-evangelists-unplugging-might-just-have-another-agenda |
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| === Karma Yoga === | === Karma Yoga === |
| * http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/working-hours | * http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/working-hours |
| * http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/01/27/140127ta_talk_surowiecki | * http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/01/27/140127ta_talk_surowiecki |
| | * http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/why-the-9-to-5-day-is-so-tough-on-creative-workers/282331/ |
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| </blockquote> | </blockquote> |
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| | ==== The Right to Laziness ==== |
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| | <blockquote> The right to laziness, once claimed by Paul Lafargue in Le Droit à la Paresse (1880), is perhaps more topical than ever. We live a time and age when competitiveness is the categorical imperative in the name of which businesses, towns, regions, countries and continents are set against each other. A time and age when business people are proclaimed guardian angels because of jobs to be created or to be saved. In such a time and age to claim the right to laziness seems like a betrayal, an appeal to apathy, almost blasphemy! - Isabelle Stengers |
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| | http://www.deburen.eu/en/blog/detail/the-right-to-laziness-an-urgent-claim |
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| ==== Doing nothing experiences ==== | ==== Doing nothing experiences ==== |
| "After a week of Vipasana we'd been sitting inside meditating all the time. On the last day I went out behind the conference centre into the garden. And after that meditating the birds in the garden just hipped past me really close. They weren't scared at all." Cocky | "After a week of Vipasana we'd been sitting inside meditating all the time. On the last day I went out behind the conference centre into the garden. And after that meditating the birds in the garden just hipped past me really close. They weren't scared at all." Cocky |
| </blockquote> | </blockquote> |
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| | Ons brein krijgt zoveel stimuli te verwerken, dat we onze focus verliezen. Weinigen snakken naar een wereld zonder e-mail of internet hoewel vrijwel iedereen de nadelen ervaart. Ik stap een jaartje uit het bombardement, benieuwd wat die rust en stilte met zich brengen. -[[http://www.tijd.be/r/t/1/id/9468366|Johan Braeckman]] |
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| | ==== Unemployment ==== |
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| | "What do you do when you find yourself with a lot more time and a lot less money on your hands than you’re used to?" |
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| | http://dougald.co.uk/writing/dougald_futureofunemployment_feb09.pdf |
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