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☆ Opinion: ‘Self Reliance’ takes on American individualism at its most absurd
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Hollywood films of diverse genres have one point in common — they’re all about the most important person in the universe. That most important person could be an amnesiac assassin fighting a mysterious government conspiracy, or some guy (or girl) seeking true love. They are the main character; everyone else is secondary. The goal of life is success and self-actualization as the main character of your own dream. He’s the most important person in a whole range of familiar narratives, all crammed haphazardly into a 90-minute run time.

Persons: Noah Berlatsky, Noah Berlatsky Noah Berlatsky, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Tim Ferriss, Marianne Williamson, Jake Johnson’s, you’d, Tommy Walcott, Johnson, Natalie Morales, Andy Samberg, John Wick, baddies, Tommy, isn’t, Maddy, Anna Kendrick, —, he’s, squinty, “, ”, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Tommy isn’t, what’s, Barbie ”, “ Oppenheimer, we’d, you’ve Organizations: CNN, Hollywood, Truman Locations: Chicago

☆ Love in Harsh Times and Other Coping Mechanisms - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In response, they adopted a tragic sensibility. You can try to avoid thinking about the dark realities of life and naïvely wish that bad things won’t happen. Or you can confront these realities and develop a tragic mentality to help you thrive among them. This tragic sensibility prepares you for the rigors of life in concrete ways. Third, this tragic mentality encourages caution.

Persons: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hal Brands, Charles Edel, Thucydides, Matt Gaetz Organizations: Hamas, Republicans

☆ Opinion | The Value of an Education That Never Ends
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Michael S. Roth | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But questions quickly arose: Are schools truly helping students think for themselves, or are they only indoctrinating them into the latest conventions? In daring to be critical and competitive interlocutors with their instructors, they work harder and learn to think more deeply. Some students learn through imitation, eager to follow their classmates as well as their teacher. Ultimately, the true student learns freedom by developing curiosity, judgment and creativity in the service of one’s own good and the good of their communities. They are learning freedom by learning who they are and what they can do (including how they might think).

Persons: Ralph Waldo Emerson, snowflake

☆ I landed a job at Google right out of college. Here are 10 things I wish I knew before starting my career.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Charlene Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Charlene Lee is a former product manager at Google who wishes she had a guide prior to starting her first job. Today, I'd like to share some of the lessons I wish I had learned before starting my career, lessons that I now teach my team. It's your job to find a good managerOne of my best managers, Paul, spent a lot of time with me early in my career. Things changed when the next box, like writing a book, started conflicting with things that weren't on the list. The start of your career is the beginning of your journey, and I hope that this guide helps you with yours.

Persons: Charlene Lee, she's, Lee, Google's, I'd, would've, Paul, wasn't, I've, didn't, Paul didn't, It's, Jon, Jon wasn't, wouldn't, —, hadn't, Carissa wasn't, Marty, Dan Gilbert, Inbal, Ralph Waldo Emerson Organizations: Google, Jon's, AngelList, Duke University Locations: Asia, New York, China, Singapore, Shanghai, —

☆ Opinion | The Case for Tourism
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Agnes Callard, a University of Chicago philosopher, infuriated various portions of the internet in June with an essay making the case against travel. Though really it was the case against tourism, since Callard exempted many forms of travel — for work or study, for personal or political reasons or charitable service — from her critique. The traveler departs confident that she will come back with the same basic interests, political beliefs and living arrangements. So I refrained from any comment on her thesis, assuming — like every other self-deluded tourist — that I would return more enlightened than before. But casting my mind back to that distant prior self, I dimly remember having two reactions to Callard’s essay.

Persons: Agnes Callard, Walker Percy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Chesterton, Callard, Mona Lisa, ’, Percy Organizations: University of Chicago, Scottish Locations: G.K, France, Britain, Netherlands

☆ Prigozhin might want to 'steer clear of any upper floor windows' for now, says military expert: 'When you strike at a king, you must kill him'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A military expert says Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin "may want to steer clear" of windows. Wechsler added that Prigozhin should remember: "When you strike at a king, you must kill him." Two critics of Putin's war in Ukraine have died in the last year after falling from building windows. He came to an agreement because Putin has long been his patron, not his adversary — the Russian military elite is his adversary," Wechsler told Insider. "In the end, Putin and Prigozhin avoided the kind of conflict that would have risked each or both of them losing everything, but the resulting agreement has diminished them both.

Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wechsler, —, Yevgeny Prigozhin's, Ralph Waldo Emerson's, William F, Prigozhin, Obama, Vladimir Putin, Pavel Antov, Antov, Ravil Maganov, Maganov's, Putin, " Wechsler Organizations: Service, Wagner Group, Rafik Hariri Center and Middle, Atlantic Council, Associated Press, Russian Defense Ministry, BBC, Russian Locations: Rafik, Moscow, Belarus, Ukraine, India, Russia

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