Category: politics
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On our obsession with careers and career changes: A reconsideration
Bafflement I’ve been observing that the term “second career” is gaining in popularity and I’ve been baffled by this. Only yesterday, someone considering becoming a yoga instructor pointed me to an article she’d read on why yoga may be a good “second career.” To confirm the upward tick in usage, I entered the term into Google…
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A beautiful soul in a beautiful world: Toward a better understanding of sustainability
On my run yesterday, I dreamed up the title of the informal talk I’ll be giving at the Future Perfect Festival to be held in Stockholm at the end of August. It is: “A Beautiful Soul in the Beautiful World: Toward a Better Understanding of Sustainability.” It may seem a non-starter for a festival on…
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On resilience and postulates
Living by making postulates has helped me, even in the darker moments, not to fall into despair. Individuals in failing marriages despair that their lives could go otherwise. Institutions in free fall have lost the capacity to wonder whether they could be organized in some other, more robust fashion. Despair marks a defect in logic…
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Gift economy: A conversation with Jackie Bergman
A 14 minute conversation with Jackie Bergman from a week ago. In the Conservatory Garden of Central Park, he and I talk about the nature of gift economy. Enjoy. *
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Love, shift, and sustainability
An 11 minute conversation with Jackie Bergman from this past Tuesday morning. In the Conservatory Garden of Central Park, he and I talk about love, shift, and sustainability. What is most telling about the conversation is how it becomes a performance piece in the art of love. Enjoy. *
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 