🧐 A thought: History aims to understand our past. Philosophy aims to understand our understanding.
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What makes a good book good? What do we mean when we judge a book good or bad? In a recent post on humanfactor.blog I quoted one publisher's and bookstore owner's response: "Does the book make you think? If it does, it is a good book." I explore this topic in greater detail in the post. And what are your thoughts? What is a good book?
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This is a post I've shared on my blog's Facebook page. It's a short video exploring an interesting concept of a burnout society. #humanfactorblogger #humanfactorblog #philosophicalthoughts #philosophyvideos #burnout #society #философскиеразмышления

"Any criticism of being implies an answer, provided one can offer an answer to one’s fellow man, i.e., to a free agent." Frantz Fanon in his book 'Black Skin, White Masks'. How can this be understood?
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Why are we often ashamed of our accents? How the way we sound influences the way we are perceived? Have a look at the new post on humanfactor.blog to find out more: https://humanfactor.blog/2023/04/15/ashamed-of-your-accent/
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The 'chicken and egg' problem - which came first? How to respond? Before we get stuck in the either/or debate, we can think of it in broader terms. The difficulty represented by the 'chicken and egg' question is that we don't know where to begin. Why? Referring to language and the related problem of which came first, system of rules or speech, Derrida suggested that we struggle with knowing where to begin because we began by splitting things up in this sharp way. Introducing Derrida's thought, Simon Glendinning writes: "If we are to overcome the 'chicken and egg' oscillation, what is needed, therefore, is a way of 'thinking at once both the rule and the event'."
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"Should I adjust my experience to align with measurement because that's reality? Isn’t it supposed to work the other way around – aren’t our tools meant to be helpful instead of regulative? Or do we grow so accustomed to the simple, standardised measurements performed by the various devices we use that our individual, lived experiences come to be perceived as somewhat bizarre deviations from the straight line?" A quote from my recent article on humanfactor.blog at https://humanfactor.blog/2023/04/17/measuring-and-living-an-experience/
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"I know of no other definition of the bad, it is bad to predestine one's reading, it is always bad to foretell. It is bad, reader, no longer to like retracing one's steps." Derrida
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In a time when simplification is the goal to strive for and when complexity is out of fashion, I find these words refreshingly encouraging: "Your brain is made to think about difficult things. To help you get to a point where you understand something that you didn't understand at first. And that becomes the cream of your life. The rest is boring and worthless. " Murakami in his story "Cream"
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Quote from the podcast on Lived Experience shared today on humanfactor.blog
"The fact of a certain interior life gives you access to social critique".
One's personal way of experiencing something enables one to notice and critically engage with social and cultural structures informing that experience. Others might not even notice these structures (due to other ways of experiencing), although also inhabiting them.
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