How to do nothing and yet accomplish everything – with my Protestant work ethic, I was too intrigued to not pick up a book with such a title – how can one be lazy and say it out loud? I honestly thought the book was a joke, but I ended up writing an article about…… Continue reading When being lazy pays off
Tag: politics
Is there a college bubble?
I admit: I live in Europe – my formal education was partly paid by taxpayers – that’s the tradition here and I’m happily paying for other people’s education now. Not only this, but even if you’d get private education, it would still be cheaper than USA. Even after all these years of school, I am…… Continue reading Is there a college bubble?
Civilization and resources
Switching between the developed and the developing world last year has made me more aware on the innate differences among people – while currently reading “The Starvation Experiment” – a study on 36 male volunteers who restricted their daily calories and the short-term and long-term consequences of their act – I came to realize how…… Continue reading Civilization and resources
Man’s Search for Meaning
A classic tribute to hope from a physician who has experienced the Holocaust, – this book became a bestseller – indirectly proving that this subject matters to us all. The book starts with the depiction of life in the Nazism prisoner camp – how the only thing that mattered was survival – thus explaining the…… Continue reading Man’s Search for Meaning