Tag Archives: My Web of Belief

Rendre service et apprendre à dire non

[en]Over the years, I’ve learnt to say no. I’ve learnt to reign in my spontaneous (and sometimes urgent) desire to offer help and services to people I want appreciation from. I try to stop and think: when the moment comes … Continue reading

Posted in Understanding life and the world | Tagged altruisme, égoïsme, life, My Web of Belief, non, Pieces of Me, psychologie, Psychology / Sociology, rendre service, témoignage, user/07467067922840649993/state/com.google/read, vie | 8 Comments

On Tags and Ontologies

Quote from Clay Shirky on the suckiness of ontologies, and how tags-labels are better for classifying ideas.

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Posted in Understanding life and the world | Tagged Citations, clayshirky, Geek / Technical, My Web of Belief, ontologies, Philosophy / Religions, tags, tagsonomies | 7 Comments

Being an Adult

Being an adult isn’t easy.

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Posted in Understanding life and the world | Tagged adult, baby, difficult, easy, grandparent, growing up, grown-up, hard, homework, life, My Web of Belief, parent, Pieces of Me, responsability, risk, school, teenager | 24 Comments

Agnosticism

A citation about agnosticism that I really agree with.

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Posted in Books, Understanding life and the world | Tagged Books, Citations, My Web of Belief, Philosophy / Religions | 4 Comments

Liberté

A lire chez Karl un beau texte de Michel Bakounine sur la liberté. La question de la liberté est épineuse. Chacun a sans doute au cours de sa vie à  la fois ressenti à  quel point nous sommes libres, mais … Continue reading

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Translation

Translating is a hard job. One is constantly confronted with subtlety which belongs to one language and simply cannot be rendered in the other. I was expecting to notice this when translating from English to French. After all, they are … Continue reading

Posted in Language Geekiness, Understanding life and the world | Tagged Languages / Linguistics, My Web of Belief | 5 Comments

Mère et père…

Cette fois, il ne s’agit pas de la mienne (on s’est assez étalé là -dessus ces derniers temps !), mais de la vie en général. Je me dois en effet de répondre à  Karl sur les hommes, les femmes et les enfants. … Continue reading

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Précipitation

Nous assistons à  une précipitation du temps. Similar Posts: Précipitation du temps Mozilla Pages Light in my Life Haloscan Support Ils venaient de loin et payaient cher Slow SSH Login from MacBook Soirée de famille Médias sociaux: ça prend un … Continue reading

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Critical Mass

I often notice what I have come to call the “critical mass” syndrome. When a service or community becomes too popular, its quality comes down. I may be pessimistic, but I see no way out of this. Similar Posts: The … Continue reading

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Entre gris clair et gris foncé

It is a mistake to judge relationships or events as “overall good” and “overall bad”. Everything has good sides and bad sides. Summing up to just one of them will only contribute to repressing the other into darkness and denial. … Continue reading

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