Self help from "The Art of War"

[drwex]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPZ_hEXbq9M

I watch a fair number of self-help videos on their YT channels. Simon Sinek's are usually good as is Charisma on Command and others like Real Engineering, Big Think and of course things like TED and Sci Show.

This is my second sample from Freedom in Thought and it's particularly apropos for me. I've always liked The Art of War, though I haven't reread it in many years. This video extracts some concrete ideas from the book's philosophy to structure a way of thinking about the world in terms of "war" and "peace". It frames these ideas around the author's struggles to get a job, particularly apropos for me, newly laid off.

Comments

[flexagon]

Oh wow, I somehow missed your "laid off" post even though I distinctly remember the ones before and after. Given that it's not even friends-locked, I don't know what happened. Let me be the first to say "ugh, that sucks" over here on this thread. :P

I watched the video -- it's slow-paced but peaceful, and definitely resonates. "Things that appeared to be stable such as degrees, corporate jobs, and economy, proved to be more shaky than I initially believed." I do wonder how he managed to spend two hours a day on resume updating for any span of time, but that's probably not the main point.

[drwex]

I had exactly the same question but I took it as illustrative rather than literal.

And yes, it does suck and I'm worried/scared.

Back in the days of LJ I deduced that your 'feed' was constructed off multiple servers. That is, all of the "drwex" entries you saw came off a variety of machines and if one was out/down/laggy it was a common occurrence for items not to show up in a feed and yet somehow appear there the next day or even on page reload. I would not be surprised if DW was using a similar architecture.