Tag: Manners

• August 7, 2013

  The Freelancer’s Dilemma: To hustle or to apologize?

  Overview Chapter 1, ‘The Freelancer’s Dilemma,’ is an excerpt from Manners and Mores: A Tutorial for Freelancers Tired of Hustling and Prone to Apologizing. The Table of Contents is included below the excerpt. How to Order a Copy of Manners and Mores I live and work in a gift economy. To determine how much you would be…
• August 6, 2013

  Manners and Mores: A Tutorial for Freelancers Tired of Hustling and Prone to Apologizing

  Background The following ebook was written out of the desire to offer some guidance to freelancers who are stuck between hustling to make it and apologizing for running roughshod over others. Yet the Freelancer’s Dilemma, as I call it, can be overcome but only if one learns the gentler art of manners: of greeting, introducing,…
• February 29, 2012

  ‘Therefore, I tried the hammer…’: On how not to receive a gift

  The impetus for the following letter was a guffaw. Last week I ordered a copy of Hubert Dreyfus’s Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time and, by mistake, had had it shipped to my conversation partner’s residence.  Here: a non-gift for you! Thanks! In his turn, he had mailed the book to me. On Monday,…
• January 25, 2012

  ‘Or some contrivance awkwardly suitable for the unpleasantly awkward occasion’

  Sometimes it goes: once lips to cheek. Sometimes it goes: twice, back and forth, slowly or swiftly. Occasionally, it goes three times. The pressure is also important. So is the touch. Firm or light. Moist or dry. Cheek or air or half-both. As intimacy grows, the lips may get closer or the kisses, on cheeks,…