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Empathy is not Action
“These days empathy has become a shortcut. It has become a way to experience delicious moral emotions without confronting the weaknesses in our nature that prevent us from actually acting upon them. It has become a way to experience the illusion of moral progress without having to do the nasty work of making moral judgments.…
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Frederick Karinthy, Soliloquies in the Bath
Oh, this short story is marvellous! I must track down more of this Karinthy fellow. Apparently he also came up with the ‘six degrees of separation’ idea. Brilliant! Digging up diamonds in my latest digital spring clean.
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Blog aggregators
Does anyone have a recommendation on a blog aggregator? Trying out both Google Reader & Bloglines at the moment. Google Reader appears to be winning, on account of being easier to manage.
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The best readings are not readings
Loving this article (for real, I’ve read it twice) on how to have good & bad author readings. Sez Michael H. Miller of the New York Observer, A good reader is either a natural performer, or knows how to throw a party. Think I originally pilfered the link from Ms Girlie Jones? My favourite writer’s…
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One day’s freedom: Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro writes about freedom – both examples-from-life freedom and Freedom, the software product that lets you temporarily block internet access so you have the freedom to write: “I have a piercing nostalgia for the places in which I used to write. A small room on the top floor of an old building on the…
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Kaaron’s spark
AND I’ve been forgetting to mention the marvellous inspiration of Kaaron Warren’s Sparks series. I love Kaaron’s energy & optimism, & was proud to be invited to be one of the writers discussing story sparks over at Kaaron’s blog.
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A couple Big Ideas on success
Success in any field requires a measure of understanding that things change, things grow and things die. And that you have to let them go. And that the ideas that you have about your career may not necessarily be the ones that are the best for you or the ones that are supposed to happen…
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Scattered thoughts II
Apartment Therapy recently had an article on ‘The Perfect Travel Bag‘. I thought, “Jezuz, who has time for *perfect* anymore??” OMG, John Cusack as Edgar Allen Poe! Why didn’t I think of this sooner?? For my next trick, let me wish up Idris Elba as James Bond! *fannish swoon* Everything costs money. EVERYTHING costs money.…