Of everyday history, the Surrealists, a maniquin, a preacher, the correspondance between Benjamin Franklin and David Hume, Wisdom and Gold, friendship, and Franklin as a Philosopher.
- From the DailyLife drawer(s)
A propos of the article by Dave Thackeray Secrets of Design Superheroes…, in which he calls designers to join or create Mastermind Groups and where he mentions Benjamin Franklin, I decided to look into what Ben called the Junto.
Franklin describes the Junto as “a club of mutual improvement”. The rules stated that each member (Dave [...]
- From the Virtue drawer(s)
We are used to seeing Ben as a fat and replete man in his pictures and we think so what happened to temperance, frugality and moderation?
- From the DailyLife drawer(s)
We act all the time, depending on the circumstances, sometimes by choice, others we realize just after (but then that would be reacting).
Why is acting then, other than the profession of acting, thought most of the times as a negative way to conduct ourselves?
Needing as a means to belong.
And when revisited, on the difference between needing and necessity
- From the Liberty, Parenthesis drawer(s)