Monday, March 4th, 2019

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Jared Newman over at Fast Company noticed that some people think “cord-cutting” —cancelling your cable or satellite TV subscription— is a bad idea. You kn...

impulses/learning

Revisions Needed

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Anonymous I came across, by way of a ...

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Lovely talk with Darina Allen of the Ballymaloe Cookery School. Cheap food is a myth.

impulses/parentheses

The Consumer Wins?

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

BBC Business Daily discusses 21st Century Monopolies with the Jonathan Tepper, author of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, and so...

parentheses/poem

The Empty Illusions of Advertising

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

I love the serendipity of an unexpected find when looking for something else. Today I found “Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money” (1978) by Jo...

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Even accountants and lawyers need patrons. The Idler writes: It just seems so unfair. I feel like saying to my children: “Study accountancy, become a lawyer, go...

economics/impulses/parentheses/Work

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Jobs have become acts of charity for corporations. Sarah Kendzior, 2015

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

How did we end up with this cult of Celebrity, that we permit anything done in its name?

impulses/parentheses/poem

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Look outside your window. Take off your blinders. See.

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Darwin Among the Machines (1863) We take it that when the state of things shall have arrived which we have been above attempting to describe, man will have beco...