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An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions:
"This is a well researched book about the lie of keeping schools closed. This stirs up the frustrations that I felt for my high schoolers and college students who missed out on so much…it continues to impact them.💔. It is an important read because we,"
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An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions:
"This was an outstanding book by a journalist who has delved deeply into the topic and produced an extremely well documented and referenced overview of the American public school closure debacle during the covid pandemic. As a physician and parent of "
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An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions:
"It’s like he read all of the thoughts I had about the pandemic and kids, in general and specifically my own. I lucked out in many ways but I still feel this anger that won’t ebb until there is honesty. TY David Zweig. Public school kids like my own s"
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“perhaps it’s philosophy that best explains why savoring responsibility leads to fulfillment. The model of happiness perpetuated by the cultural juggernauts of Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and Disneyesque fairy tales of everyday effervescence, broad-smiled contentedness, and perfect relationships is a historically anomalous, and for most, unachievable state. In contrast, we shall return to eudaimonia, the classical Greek concept of happiness that essentially means the “flourishing” or “rich” life. With their devotion to training, meticulousness, and desire for quiet power and accountability, Invisibles understand the value of a life not necessarily of the moment-to-moment happiness that many mistakenly strive for, but of an overall richness of experience, a life grounded in eudaimonic values.”
― Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
― Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
“In fact, Invisibles are found in all walks of life. What binds them is their approach—deriving satisfaction from the value of their work, not the volume of their praise.”
― Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
― Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
“This love of overseeing the engineering on such exceptional buildings necessitates a healthy ego to holster so much responsibility. It also requires a certain humility. “When you have enough experience, you are allowed to take on more responsibility. So responsibility grows hand in hand with your experience,” he told me. Through Poon’s slow ascent to the top of his field, one begins to understand how important patience is in taking on responsibility. “Once you have so much experience, you can handle a lot of difficulties, challenges in the engineering design, challenges in construction. How to handle different situations with business,” he said. It’s only through experience that Poon became ready and qualified to take on so much responsibility. But once you’re ready for it, the rewards are immense. “The challenge should not be stressful to you. It should be an excitement and an honor.”
― Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
― Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
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“A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another....
One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object -- and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.”
― Ways of Seeing
One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object -- and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.”
― Ways of Seeing
