A co-worker tired of having someone take her half-and-half she used for her vending machine coffee, so she wrote a note on it: "I spit into this"


Someone added, "So did I."

It’s the office version of the tragedy of the commons, a theory developed in 1968 by ecologist Garrett Hardin as a way to explain why shared resources are often ruined. 

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
Jack Kerouac

The paradox of the brain is it thinks best when it's not really thinking

Manufacturing’s shrinking presence undoubtedly helps explain the decline in craftsmanship, if only because many of the nation’s assembly line workers were skilled in craft work, if not on the job then in their spare time. In a late 1990s study of blue-collar employees at a General Motors plant (now closed) in Linden, N.J., the sociologist Ruth Milkman of City University of New York found that many line workers, in their off-hours, did home renovation and other skilled work.

“I have often thought,” Ms. Milkman says, “that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory.”

|NYT Excerpt
(Though the dignity not lost on him, but Ms.Milkman who herself probably never grew up or had to do any of these labours)

If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you
                              |Sermon heard by Jimmy Carter
(He professed that Jesus was a driving force in his life.)

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
| Plato

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you...
| Jack Kerouac


Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is (t0) the one who endures that the final victory comes.
| Maha Muni Sri Sri Guatama Siddharta (Sri Buddha)