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Chimney Philosophy
Williams, Tennessee (1999/1945). The Glass Menagerie. “The Catastrophe of Success,” 99. Story behind the Passage Today the chimney sweeper came to visit. She had to inspect the chimney and the heater, which is something she needs to do every three years. The checking does not take long or require too much concentration. A conversation unfolded…
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Availability
Thaler, Rhichard H, and Cass R. Sunstein. Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, 27. Story behind the Passage No, I am not talking about the kind of “availability” that we know from our daily lives; meaning temporal availability mostly. What is meant in the book is the availability of thoughts to get people…
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Theology Philosophy And Experience
Mieth, Dietmar (1990). „Meister Eckhart — Spiritualität des Denkens und Erfahrung des Glaubens.“ In: Spiritualität aus Glaubenserfahrung: Gestaltungen christlicher Existenz. Mechthild Dreyer and Werner Simon, Ed. 45. Story behind the Passage Yesterday in a conversation about education and my long-time vision of building a “school” (whatever that means to people nowadays), I caught myself talking about some really…
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Bold Visionaries
Brands, H. W. (1999). Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey, 188. Story behind the Passage On most of the days when I write for my blog, I wonder why the heck I called this “Startups Story Learning” at the beginning. After…
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Completion And Expression
De Beauvoir, Simone (2005/1960). Memoiren einer Tochter aus gutem Hause, 208. Story behind the Passage Just now when opening de Beauvoir’s book, I had one of these moments again when you are being confronted with things you did in the past, which your “old” self did many years ago, and you had completely forgotten about them.…
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Virtue And Politics
Aristotle, translated by David Ross (2009). The Nicomachean Ethics, 3–4. Story behind the Passage At no point in my life so far did I think so much about virtue. Actually, I probably thought about it very much but without being fully aware of it and without naming it like this. And I was not only thinking…
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Bonsai Death
Tanaka, Haruki (2021). Bonsai für Einsteiger — Das Praxisbuch: Wie Sie den für Sie richtigen Bonsai auswählen, aufziehen, zuschneiden und pflegen — inkl. der 10 besten Tipps für die Bonsaizucht. Story behind the Passage These days, I am really into plants. I mean, not plants in the sense of “drugs,” I really mean indoor plants and outdoor plants for…
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Radical Experience
James, William (2000). Pragmatism and Other Writings, 338. Story behind the Passage No, the title today is not a typo. You might think so if you happen to know the term “radical empiricism” by William James. I am building on James today but I want to focus more on the concept of experience itself. How…
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Recovery With Growth
Jackson, Tim (2009). Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, 17. Story behind the Passage Today in the car, I was listening to the news on the radio. One thing they reported about was the fact that Frankfurt Airport was recovering from Covid because the economic performance is picking up speed again. Of course, there…
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Decisions
Mintzberg, Henry (1989). Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations, 72–3. Story behind the Passage Last night, I listened to a pretty powerful lecture by an experienced consultant and advisor. The topic was decision-making. Of course, that is a huge topic because life is all about making decisions every single second. As he…