Archive for October, 2009
Tonight was one of those nights that I would probably have talked about many moons later and wished I had recorded it in some way. I would have consoled myself that my memory was good enough anyway. I would then have been satisfied that the lack of my own journalling was of no consequence and [ READ MORE ]
This piece from The Economist shocked me about what is going on in French workplaces. Nowadays I have a better idea of what I mean when I say Work-Life balance. But I still have problems with my compass. My internal mechanisms that should help point me toward the place of balance do not work as [ READ MORE ]
As a scientist, most of what I do is driven by data. This extends even to my personal life. I make decisions based mostly on what is indicated by the existing information. So when I reviewed my dashboard and saw that the most popular page of the few I have written is the “Most Irritating [ READ MORE ]
During the course of medical training every doctor-to-be is schooled in the avoidance of conflict with patients. We are told to suspend moral judgements on patients` lifestyles, politics, religion and so on and hone in only on the human being that needs our help. For this reason one (as a patient) might find it difficult [ READ MORE ]
The movie “Surrogates” focuses on an artificial world in which humans are able to use machines as clones of themselves. The machines have a human appearance which can be anything the “operator” chooses. They are available in “basic versions” even from regular retail outlets. The surrogate machine will stand in for the human while the [ READ MORE ]
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