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At Home - 0 views

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homelessness happiness design networks

shared by anonymous on 26 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 26 Sep 12
     
    Ongoing web documentary (to 2013) by the National Film Board (Canada) in which the traditional model of dealing with homelessness is flipped: housing first, other issues second. Eye-opening in terms of its design and its content.
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The 'Busy' Trap - 2 views

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happiness time management

shared by anonymous on 11 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • they’re addicted to busyness and dread what they might have to face in its absence.
  • Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day
  • if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary.
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  • his busyness was like some vast churning noise through which he was shouting out at me, and I gave up trying to shout back over it.
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