Author: Andrew Taggart
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Yes And: Buddhism And Beyond
In a recent Aeon article, “The Problem of Mindfulness,” graduate philosophy student Sahanika Ratnayake claims, among other reasonable claims she makes, that mindfulness, just because it rests upon a no-self (anatta) doctrine, promotes detachment from one’s thoughts and feelings and, in turn, nullifies one’s ability to deliberate upon one’s thoughts and feelings as well as, and more important…
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That’s Not Soul Searching
I once had a chat with a man who’d finished a BA at a major research university, later on a Master’s degree at an Ivy League school. Between both, he had worked successfully in finance and had then successfully pivoted to the tech space. After “some soul searching,” he said, he decided to become a…
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ThePresent And Today
I recently received a note from Scott Thrift, an inventor of two clocks–ThePresent, which slowly carves out the year according to the natural rhythms of the seasons, and Today, whose “silent movement” is said, according to the MOMA Store, to simplify “the day into the perfect balance of dawn, noon, dusk, and midnight.” It is…
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Perhaps It Is The Hardest Thing Except For Death
Most of us can’t bear being alone with ourselves–while non-doing. Someone between jobs in finance is frantically looking for his next job. A solopreneur is bored and worn out by the dog days of summer. Another, an entrepreneur, is almost 40 and terribly lonesome. You can think of many others. I say most of us…
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Total Work Newsletter On Substack & The Philosopher Is Not Present
Two pieces of news to share with you: 1. I’ve moved my Total Work Newsletter over to Substack. You can view old issues and sign up to receive new issues here. If you’ve already signed up (when I was using Revue), then you needn’t sign up again. You should have received the latest issue, #44…
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