Who uses LiveJournal anymore...? What a relic from the past...

unsustainable workload, perceived lack of control, insufficient rewards for effort, lack of a supportive community, lack of fairness, and mismatched values and skills.

"A “creative” job listing may lure you to pursue your destiny, freed from old social strictures - but also freed from traditional benefits and security. For the privilege of doing “creative” work, we are asked to accept conditions of financial anxiety and precariousness that in previous times were unthinkable to the gainfully employed."

"It comes as a great shock to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance... has not pledged allegiance to you."

“[T]he only way a critical change will happen in Pakistan is when the elite of this country, the politicians and the wealthy sections of the society, will sacrifice their short term, individual and family interest, in the benefit of the nation. You cannot have a political class in this country that uses its power to enrich itself, and to favour its ( Read more... )

“You get more life experience living a year in New York then you do a decade almost anywhere else,” Ms. Kramer says. “You’re always thinking on your feet. That mind-set made it so much easier to move to another country where you’re adjusting to new things like language and cultural traditions.”
- WSJ

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“When you turn on a TV set and immerse yourself in images of human beings doing human activities - looking for unusually small houses, awaiting elimination on a reality show, solving murders in a procedural - it’s easy to forget that what you’re watching is not people but a machine, its network of pixels, subpixels, liquid crystals and transistors ( Read more... )

When you have an entire document filled with words you’re waiting for the opportunity to use someday in an article.

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“she deserves a lot of the credit. You can argue the pros and cons of Hillary Clinton’s character, or her potential to change the nation, or her position on trade policy. But you can never take away the fact that she was the one who made the idea of a woman becoming president so normal that many young women are bored by it.”
- NYTimes

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“In the summer of 1992, I took a ‘luxury cab’ from Damascus to Amman. The cab’s class was important: luxury cabs provided extra services at the border crossing, helping to circumvent the humiliations reserved for Syrian men every time they left the country. When we reached the Syrian border, the driver got out and promised to get my documents ( Read more... )