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New Growth, Humble Beginnings, WA [OC] [1700x2000] - Author: RaikageQ on Reddit

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Isn't it cute how they just share the family's address without a care in the world

–From The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

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#Alice #Alice in Wonderland #Jabberwocky #Lewis Carroll

#endtimes

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#there's something about 90s music which just makes you want to go back and stay there #blur #the universal #90s #britpop #music #indie

So this place is still up and running. Well well...

#Hello people #long time no see

New York by LJ. https://flic.kr/p/5zxCMV

#Flickr #newyork #homeless

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Employees who practice mindfulness meditation are less motivated, having realized the futility of their jobs

In the NYT, a pair of behavioral scientists describe a forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes article (Sci-Hub mirror) that studied the effect of mindfulness meditation (a trendy workplace moral-booster) on workers’ motivation and performance.

Turns out that people who meditate are less motivated: “Meditation was correlated with reduced thoughts about the future and greater feelings of calm and serenity – states seemingly not conducive to wanting to tackle a work project.”

People who had meditated were more focused, but they didn’t perform better than their less calm, more anxious colleagues, because “their lower levels of motivation…seemed to cancel out that benefit.

During the heyday of psychedelics, the prevailing conspiracy theory explaining the criminalization of "mind-expanding” substances was that the boss class realized that people who could perceive greater truths would be unshackled from meaningless materialism and the need to work to attain status goods. Whether or not that was why regulators acted to ban psychedelic substances (an act that former UK Drugs Czar David Nutt called “the worst case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Copernicus and Galileo”), there certainly seems to be a correlation between discomfort and anxiety and your willingness to work hard for someone else’s enterprise.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/17/tune-in-turn-on-slack-off.html

The view from our second floor (3rd floor for those on the other side of the Atlantic) office bathroom, on a not-so-late afternoon in December last year. The first lights had already flickered on and that eerie quiet atmosphere that precedes dusk was settling in.

I was at work but I couldn’t help marvelling at the thousands of lives that were playing out throughout the expanse in front of me.

#Dusk #Houses #roofline #panorama #sunset