Category — Microblog Mondays

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I get the Rose-Coloured Roundup, and she ended the newsletter last week with a quote from Mother Teresa: “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

I am guessing that was true for Mother Teresa — people interacted with her and felt happier after the interaction.  I mean, she was Mother Teresa.  I don’t know if that was true 100% of the time for all people, but there are people who fill others with awe (and subsequently make people feel happy to experience that awe), and Mother Teresa was one of those people.

Whereas the rest of us are not Mother Teresa, and, unfortunately, I know I sometimes must make people unhappy.  It’s an interesting quote, and definitely something to strive for, but perhaps not achievable in the sense that people don’t have a lot of sympathy and understanding when they’re not getting what they want.  Myself included.  I can think of a lot of people I’ve interacted with this week who have definitely not left me feeling happy.

What are your thoughts?

P.S. Spreading love is the opposite of April Fool’s Day.  April Fool’s Day… yuck.

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I’m reading Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets (which is fascinating), and she talks about how our brains are hardwired to compare ourselves to the people around us, and then create a mental narrative of where we stand based on those comparisons.  She writes on page 107: “Our brain is built to seek positive self-image updates.  It is also built to view ourselves in competition with our peers.”

It reminded me an article that I read a few months ago about why the ultrarich still strive for more money even though their rational brain knows that they don’t need to hoard more cash for a rainy day.  The article asks: “But at a certain level of wealth, the next million isn’t going to suddenly revolutionize their lifestyle. What drives people, once they’ve reached that point, to keep pursuing more?”

And then: “Norton says that research regularly points to two central questions that people ask themselves when determining whether they’re satisfied with something in their life: Am I doing better than I was before? and Am I doing better than other people?”  Like Duke’s book, this is also an interesting piece, especially why we latch onto money instead of other measures of success for answering those questions.

It feels overwhelming to stare into a bottomless goal.  An ever-moving enough line.

Your thoughts?

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Someone made a comment on a listserv that I’m on that 10 – 15 years from now, we’ll only need 20 – 30% of the workforce.  Meaning, there may not be jobs out there for people who want to work.  I tried to check the figure online, and while I didn’t find that one specifically, there are plenty of AI experts making predictions on how many jobs will be going away in the next few years.  Are we watching a crisis unfold?

I’m jumpy.

So, yeah, that job from yesterday is looking pretty damn good right now; not least of which is the job security.

Do you worry about an unemployment crisis in the future?  Because even if you’re not affected because you’ll be done working, if younger generations aren’t working and contributing taxes and continuing the system, we’re all screwed.

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I am pro-name tag.  I prefer the kind that go around your neck vs. the ones that clip on, but other than that, I am pro-any-name-tag-all-the-time.  365 days per year.

It is embarrassing when you didn’t hear someone’s name and now too much time has passed to ask it again.  It is equally embarrassing when you’ve forgotten someone’s name you should remember, and frustrating when you’re staring at someone and you know you know but you have no clue where you know them from.

And then there are all the other added benefits:

Nametags give people lots of space to be called what they’d actually like to be called. If the name that you’ve been given at birth feels like not the best fit, nametags would give you the opportunity to adjust as you please, minimal explanation required. (You can even include your preferred pronouns—there’s room!)

Are you also pro-name tag?

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There’s a company that is looking for two strangers to go on an all-expenses 50-day, 5 continent trip together and agree to have the whole thing filmed.  No, I’m not entering.

Not just because being filmed for 50 seconds (much less 50 days) sounds unappealing.  The other side is the stranger aspect.  They could turn out to be an awesome travel partner, which would make the trip fantastic.  Or they could be a terrible travel partner and end up ruining 50 days worth of sights.  So much of the enjoyment that comes with a trip is taking it with people you like.  Seeing things with people you want to have a conversation with afterward.  Going on a trip with one other stranger is also veeeeeeery different from going alone on a trip with an organized group.  With a group, you may have time apart or multiple people to choose from.

Plus… the judges are three white men.  If the goal is to thoughtfully place two people together who can travel in harmony, they may want to get more diversity on the team.  Unless that isn’t their goal.

So while I would love an all-expenses 50-day, 5 continent trip, cameras and strangers are deal breakers.

Would you travel (filmed!) with a single stranger?

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