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The Higher Life
- niels_olson 11y agoA Venice Beach surfer cashes in with an iphone app. Just go surfing, yo.
- swagv 11y agoIt lost me at "TED"
- howlingfantods 11y agoI use headspace every day. It's easy to follow and extremely helpful. It's a fad right now, sure, but at least it's a useful fad. Pro tip: if you VPN onto their site from a European server, you'll get the Euro prices, which are significantly cheaper than USD prices.
- locahost 11y agoI use it daily. One thing that impressed me right away was the engaging visual and interaction design. I'm surprised to read the intended user is male--most "masculine" design seems heavy and dark in palette, while Headspace relies on nearly pastel tints.
- niels_olson 11y agoThey're in Venice Beach, they may just be using the palette and style they know.
- serve_yay 11y agoAdmirable is he, who when he sees lightning, does not say "Life goes by like a flash".
- walterbell 11y agoFrom the article, ".. Stanford study .. demonstrated that most workplace stress is caused by things like corporate dysfunction and job insecurity—not by “unmindful employees.” Corporations like mindfulness, he said, because it “keeps us within the fences of the neoliberal capitalist paradigm. It’s saying, ‘It’s your problem, get with the program, fix your stress, and get back to work!’”
- qntty 11y agoThis quote is gold. "Be mindful of the stress that you're causing yourself, but ignore the stress that we're causing you."
- walterbell 11y agoIt's similar to the reframing of corporate "bank fraud" as individual "identity theft", https://youtube.com/watch?v=oOQBpHN_kS0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=oOQBpHN_kS0
- julian_t 11y agoAh yes... there is such a lot of that around. I recall a "work-life balance" seminar held from 7-8pm on a Friday. (I'd like to think that anyone who turned up was just told to go away and get some work-life balance, but knowing the company involved, I don't think so...)
- dbpokorny 11y ago> keeps us within the fences of the neoliberal capitalist paradigm That's because the original practices and teachings have been adulterated and heavily re-contextualized. The original context is extraordinarily hostile to Communism, Capitalism, progress, pragmatism, goals, modern society, domestic society, the economy, etc... Pierre Turlur has an excellent criticism of this particular appropriation, "The Dharma is utterly useless" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvmgpyVcYJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvmgpyVcYJc
- Delmania 11y agoWhere I work, we haven't gotten to the mindfulness phase yet, but we're working on something called the "mood elevator". For a long time, I questioned why I hated it so much (as well as mindfulness), while finding value in basic concepts. Being aware at all times, keeping track of your emotions and trying to remain positive. I then had a breakthrough when I was looking at the (in)famous productivity vs. wages chart. All of these efforts are nothing more than an attempt to get us to work more without paying more. Rather than seek to identify the real issues in a work place, rather than seek to change your working culture, it's much easier to sprinkle your employees with positive pop psych shit and tell them they are empowered.