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Seeing Things

A  previous boss (I’ll spare his blushes) once said to me:  ”To do things differently, you have to see things differently”. Since then, life has been a constant search for new ways of looking: You can find alternative lenses in the most unexpected places. Indeed, the less expected, the fresher the view. In recent weeks, [...]

Screen Time

According to Wired Magazine, the average American spends 8 to 9 hours a day in front of a screen. Based on the premise that information consumption should be as healthy as food consumption, the magazine suggests this as a ‘balanced diet’ in this information-overload age: Now, I’m reasonably media-savvy, and the very existence of this [...]

Paper Boy

“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consistent of believing, or in disbelieving; it consists of professing to believe what he does not believe.” Thomas Paine It is Sunday morning. Ben and I sit in the kitchen. I skim the pages of a broadsheet, [...]