Category: Meditations

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Is Long-Term Recovery Likely?

Washington, DC to Wall Street seem to assume is ramping up and going strong. For obvious reasons I remain dubious. I still have a lot of friends and associates who are either jobless or nearly so. It's also clear that in our new globalized world there are plenty of things that can tip the economics of the globe off kilter and cause trouble. Read more [...]
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The Cost of Long-Term Unemployment

More and more studies are appearing about what happens to people who are unemployed for a long time. The universal consensus is that very real psychological damage results when someone is unable to find work after several months. What is particularly sobering about this research is that the damage can be lifelong and often includes significantly reduced income for years or even decades afterward. Read more [...]
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Meditations on the Abyss at the Urgent Care Clinic

I was sitting at my computer when I was hit by a sudden headache. It came on within seconds; the worst headache I’d ever had. Exquisite, excruciating pain; to borrow from Gibson’s Neuromancer, “…pain beyond anything to which the name of pain is given.” A quick Google search served to suggest that this could be very serious and I needed to see someone right away. Read more [...]
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Benjamin Franklin’s Rules for Living

Earlier this evening I was reading from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and ran across this set of rules he made for himself when he was twenty. Living a good life, and living well demand a certain degree of thoughtful discipline and this list has some good ideas in it, and so I thought it a good idea to post them here. Read more [...]
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