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Month: November, 2008

Identity

With the onslaught of stim­u­lus baked into mod­ern life, the con­stant per­sua­sion of the pub­lic dia­logue and the desire of each one of us to assess oth­ers for their fit­ness in our tribe, we expe­ri­ence con­stant pres­sure on our iden­tity. The work of becom­ing an adult in mod­ern Amer­ica is to inte­grate iden­tity into action, […]

Great use of video & graphics to show information

This is really neat. Sim­ple, clear, and some­thing that was a tightly defined infor­ma­tion expe­ri­ence before the videonet.…

Employment.…

There’s a lot of con­cern about employ­ment in the U.S., jus­ti­fi­ably so, as a mul­ti­tude of com­pa­nies have trimmed their work­force to reflect cur­rent or antic­i­pated down­turns in results. Here are some use­ful charts from the Bureau of Labor Sta­tis­tics: The first looks at the growth in the labor force over the past 10 years. […]

Music that wasn’t there before

For a few min­utes more I sat still in my door­way, watch­ing the sun glide into place, think­ing about the call to Regina I’d be mak­ing that day. Behind me Bil­lie was on her last song. I picked up the refrain, hum­ming a few bars. Her voice sounded dif­fer­ent to me now. Beneath the layers […]

Another…

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Jungian patterns

ISTJ — “Trustee”. Deci­sive­ness in prac­ti­cal affairs. Guardian of time– hon­ored insti­tu­tions. Depend­able. 11.6% of total pop­u­la­tion. Take Free Jung Per­son­al­ity Testper­son­al­ity tests by similarminds.com Main type Vari­ant Take Free Ennea­gram Per­son­al­ity Testper­son­al­ity tests by similarminds.com Ennea­gram Test Results Type 1 Per­fec­tion­ism |||||||||||||| 56% Type 2 Help­ful­ness |||||||||||||| 56% Type 3 Image Aware­ness |||||||||||||||| 66% Type 4 […]