The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the “I” out of the experience. We pretend that we are amoebas, and try to protect ourselves from life by splitting in two. Sanity, wholeness, and integration lie in the realization that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate “I” or mind can be found.
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.
Ten Things to Do in Sydney This Summer for Less Than $10
Swim in an ocean or harbour pool for free
While Sydney’s beaches are obviously incredible, so too are our unique ocean and harbour pools. Many are free to enter, and the ones that aren’t won’t set you back too much. Our favourite freebies? Maccallum Pool at Cremorne Point, Bronte Baths, Fairy Bower Rockpool at Manly and Mahon Pool at Maroubra. Iconic Bondi Icebergs, along with Wylie’s Baths at Coogee will both cost a few bucks – but they’re worth it.
While Sydney’s beaches are obviously incredible, so too are our unique ocean and harbour pools. Many are free to enter, and the ones that aren’t won’t set you back too much. Our favourite freebies? Maccallum Pool at Cremorne Point, Bronte Baths, Fairy Bower Rockpool at Manly and Mahon Pool at Maroubra. Iconic Bondi Icebergs, along with Wylie’s Baths at Coogee will both cost a few bucks – but they’re worth it.
Free movies, bargain oysters and plenty of outdoor activities – it’s going to be one heck of a (cheap) summer.
Are The Arts In Crisis Or Is This A Great Opportunity?
While some have reacted to this trend with protests of ‘art for art’s sake’, perhaps we should view the increasing focus on the usefulness of the arts as an opportunity. The cultural sector now has the chance to define how it would like to be valued. Perhaps having to prove “relevance”will seem a light touch when compared to metrics like gross value added or wellbeing adjusted life years. – Arts Professional
Researchers: Humans Had Language Millions Of Years Ago
Authors argue that the anatomical ingredients for speech were present in our ancestors much earlier than 200,000 years ago. In fact, they propose that the necessary equipment—specifically, the throat shape and motor control that produce distinguishable vowels—has been around as long as 27 million years, when humans and Old World monkeys (baboons, mandrills, and the like) last shared a common ancestor. – The Atlantic
Vox – In memoriam: The brands we lost in the 2010s – RIP Blockbuster, Borders, and so many more. “The 2010s were a decade of extreme retail innovation. Instagrammy direct-to-consumer companies like Warby Parker and Everlane sprang up seemingly overnight; hulking businesses like Amazon permeated what felt like every aspect of our shopping lives. There’s a cost, of course, to such breakneck change, and that came in the form of what’s been called the “retail apocalypse.” Not just the result of these new upstarts and consolidated power (private equity certainly did its part); the death of many traditional retail chains left hundreds of thousands without jobs, and the shuttering of countless storefronts. We asked some of our favorite writers to eulogize the brands that meant a lot to them, which breathed their last in the past decade. (Since bankruptcy is so complicated — brands that file don’t always die, zombie companies resurrect themselves all the time — we allowed somewhat loose criteria here.) Here, a handful of remembrances for the retailers that shaped us…”
Rising complexity, higher stakes for
enterprise risk management
Cybersecurity & data
privacy trends in 2020
n Cybersecurity
continues to be the number one “external concern” for American CEOs, regardless
of their industry. That’s because the number of cyberattacks is increasing
every year --with hackers attempting to break into a computer every 39 seconds
on average and the annual costs of these attacks is expected to reach an
incredible $6 trillion by 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures.
n The
global rollout of 5G wireless technology, combined with the expansion of the
Internet of Things (IoT), means that more and more vulnerable devices will be
connected to the internet over the next several years, increasing the challenges
that security actors will need to overcome.
n Changes
in data privacy regulations also mean that organizations are scrambling to
update their policies before new regulations go into effect. They’re also
working with international development services, increasing the size of their
budgets, and hiring cybersecurity experts in large numbers as vulnerabilities
in existing security protocols become apparent.