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Archive for Steve Jobs

The Internet and How It Affects Our Ability to Develop, Maintain, and Manipulate Mental Containers (part I)

In recent months I have read two books that take opposing views concerning the future of the Internet and its impact on empathy. The first is economist and educator Jeremy Rifkin’s 2014 book entitled The Zero Marginal Cost Society—The Internet of Things, The Collaborative Commons, and The Eclipse of Capitalism (which I blogged about in […]

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COMMENT: Boys and Men Stiffed (Again)

The title to this post is a reference to Susan Faludi’s 1999 book entitled Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. When it was released in 1999, Faludi’s book created a bit of a storm within liberal feminist communities. Stiffed seemed to paint the plight of men during the 1990s using sympathetic tones. Displaying any […]

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Executive Function—Don’t Take It Personally

Yes, I know, you were expecting part VI of my multi-part review of the 2014 edited volume entitled Addictions from an Attachment Perspective—Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours? I’ve decided to pause my review of Addictions from an Attachment Perspective and talk about a favorite topic of mine Executive Function. Why? […]

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