Tag Archives: Philosophy

Kanye just played Twitter like a fiddle

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Kanye West finally ended his social media hiatus this past weekend, nearly a year after he randomly deleted his Twitter and Instagram accounts. Over the past few days, the producer/rapper/fashion designer has sent out an avalanche of tweets ranging f...

When Money Doesn’t Equal Happiness

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Lendio team members (disclaimer:  I’m the Founder/CEO of Lendio) were invited to participate in our monthly book club.  Those who are interested all read the same book and then we...

Inside Google’s Mysterious Ethics Board and DeepMind

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By Patrick Lin and Evan Selinger The technology world was abuzz last week when Google announced it spent nearly half a billion dollars to acquire DeepMind, a UK-based artificial intelligence (AI)...

Should Digital Health Startups Prioritize Eyeballs or Revenue?

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The good news, I guess, is that the well-worn “eyeballs versus revenue” debate – a dialog that has beset the tech world for years – has at long last reached digital health, suggesting that now there...
    






12 Ways To Understand the Chinese Traveller

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“All the ripping down of the old and throwing up of the new across China today cannot be explained as a matter of economic necessity alone. It is too frantic to be considered so simply. The...
    






Book Of the Year: The Most Famous Medieval Materialist

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A book that views a noted saint and theologian of the Catholic Church as–a materialist? It may sound counterintuitive, but British born Yale professor of historical theology Denys Turner makes his...
    






Time Management 101: Stop Managing Time

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Do you find yourself running at an even more frenzied pace during the holiday season? I do.  So, as I looked at my bottomless to-do list and deadlines fast approaching I did a Google search on “time...
    






7 Posters of Famous Philosophical Ideas

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Philosophy doesn’t always work well in pictures, or at least the great quotes by philosophers. How does one capture an idea, after all? Max Temkin, the artist, wanted to create  posters with quotes thatmotivated people to think ‘different‘, and did it quite well.

Albert Camus

A french writer, journalist and philosopher that lived between 1913 and 1960. His views ...
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14 Philosophical Concepts as Minimalistic Art

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Philosophy, the attempt of some guys in Greece to explain the world and everything that happens by some set of rules and patterns, trying to simply, thereby complicating everything, our understanding of life. Like everything these days, philosophical concepts get minimalistic, thus simpler to explain.

Determinism

A philosophy stating that for everything ...
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