in an era where we are probably moving from the information age to the imagination age (I like to call it ideas ago though), creativity will be there. 1/n
problem solving, systems thinking, management cybernetics, AI-native whatchamecallit — but there's this underlying theme of solving wicked problems that we need to figure out. 2/n
unsurprisingly, this is never taught in schools. our education system is caught lacking here, and the only way out is to retreat into studiolos and libraries and become the flâneur if necessary.
indeed, it's a very 4:20 PM thought.
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it is ultimately the answer to the Camusian question. life is meaningless, what to do next? nihilism is an nice line of thought, but for when it gets too empty -- resort to absurdism. just live. exist. have experiences.
there is also a very radical way. an almost epicurean, bordering on insanity path. the Hunterian answer to the Camusian question.
“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” — HST
that brings us to the middle path, often keeping a balance between purposes and philosophy. that interesting mediocrity of domesticity.
"Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee..., to music... and to the "good life"
Online MBA is the biggest load of bullcrap. It's a fugazi. It's a woozy-wazy. It's a fairy dust. A vaporware.
I don't know what idiocy Kamath was referring to — but my earnest belief is online MBAs are one of them.
arréy baba, the sole 'raison d'être' of an MBA is/was the peer learning & networking & the 'brand'.
You'd have your name chiselled in the finest of marbles adorned with the finest of silk so that you could buy your missus — lobster and steak dinner and tiffany's and pearls.