Posted in a luta continua, city life, phronesis, the story and its songs on Jul 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Some time ago a friend in a big city told me that some of the people in their church who have the hardest time, vocationally speaking, are 28-year olds working in big corporations. They are no longer novices, they are kind of set on a career, but they don’t really have any significant institutional power yet. [...]
Posted in imagination, phronesis, technologies of memory on Jul 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
How do you design a house so that the people who live in it never forget where they left their car keys?
Posted in anecdata on Jul 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
31. Swim across the Atlantic Ocean Entering Brazil 9,207 km I was trying to use Google maps to roughly calculate the distance between my house in Canada and the new house of a friend in New Zealand, and when that failed I wondered if Google would map the distances between places on (broadly speaking) contiguous [...]
