optimism

Focusing on Opportunities

by Brian on 01-11-2010

in canada,civics,media

I’ve learned not to care as much when other people are being stupid. It’s their problem. Last year I did more blogging in the spirit of “someone’s wrong on the internet,” but lately I’ve learned to lay off and let people screw up. (I’m so kind.) When I started writing about media it was because [...]

Complaints

by Brian on 12-09-2007

in Uncategorized

I just read an interesting piece by Julian Baggini about the value of complaining. His argument is roughly that complaining is what makes us human: our defining characteristic is a sense of right and wrong, or the ability to “conceive of the idea that things are not as they ought to be,” and an impulse [...]