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Whether writing, directing, acting, or producing, Hawke spends most of his waking hours thinking about storytelling. His productivity is unique among his acting peers. After lunch, we walked around the corner to his office, where he was preparing to direct a film adaptation (written with Shelby Gaines) of Tennessee Williams’s lyrical political fantasia “Camino Real.” Set in a barbarous Spanish-speaking backwater, the play is a paean to nonconformity, told, as Williams put it, “in the spirit of the American comic strip.” Trapped within the town’s ancient walls, various literary figures—Casanova, Lord Byron, Don Quixote, Madame Gautier—and Kilroy, a former boxing champ and eternal Punchinello, contend with illusion and desperation. In 1999, Hawke played Kilroy in a memorable production, directed by Nicholas Martin, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the experience stayed with him. “It’s like sticking your finger in an electric socket and having it shoot through the audience,” he said. “The way Williams deals with iconography and sexuality and self-hatred and self-love—it’s just the most incredible bit of performance I’ve ever had. I’ve been chasing that feeling and wanting to give it to an audience.”

Source: The Many Faces of Ethan Hawke | The New Yorker

Good advice. All of them

The future will never provide the reassurance you seek from it. As the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics understood, much of our suffering arises from attempting to control what is not in our control. And the main thing we try but fail to control – the seasoned worriers among us, anyway – is the future. We want to know, from our vantage point in the present, that things will be OK later on. But we never can. (This is why it’s wrong to say we live in especially uncertain times. The future is always uncertain; it’s just that we’re currently very aware of it.)

It’s freeing to grasp that no amount of fretting will ever alter this truth. It’s still useful to make plans. But do that with the awareness that a plan is only ever a present-moment statement of intent, not a lasso thrown around the future to bring it under control. The spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti said his secret was simple: “I don’t mind what happens.” That needn’t mean not trying to make life better, for yourself or others. It just means not living each day anxiously braced to see if things work out as you hoped.

Source: Oliver Burkeman’s last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

I feel that the pandemic has exposed how lacking the online presence of most traditional businesses in the Philippines is.

A lott of businesses have an online presence due to the kindness of strangers.

Someone really has to make the net more rewarding for the people who love doing things for the benefit of others.

Analysis and Opinion By Karl Garcia Let us look Philippine industrialization — after our recent look at agriculture.   ASEAN INTEGRATION ASEAN integration was a measure intended for a level playing field in terms of development. The trade war showed us the ugliness of imposing high tariffs all in the name of protectionism. The said trade […]

Philippine Industrialization

Analysis and opinion By Joe America This blog article is being written by dictation. This is a skill I learned from my son who is undertaking distance learning. It seems to me that distance learning is the future. The classroom is so 1900s. Technology is the way of the world today. We should use […]

Distance learning is cool; classrooms are so 1900s

It seems to me the Plunder’s family is doing the same as these UCA people.

 
The Problem of Confederate Statues on U.S. Public Lands Sep 28, 2020 Southern Civil War symbols have been a flash point in towns and cities for years, but at places like the Gettysburg battlefield and Arlington National Cemetery—which are run by the Park Service and the Pentagon—there’s a new, escalating conflict over monuments that honor the Lost Cause. Let’s do a mental exercise about Confederate monuments in public spaces: I’ll describe one that doesn’t exist, and you tell me whether you’d find it offen

Source: The Problem of Confederate Statues on U.S. Public Lands | Outside Online

I wish DOLE TESDA and CHED collaborate on something similar to this site.
Source: My Next Move

Have you ever said, “I know I can do this job if someone would just give me a chance!”
Guess what?
It’s probably not gunna happen.
Most companies aren’t just going to “give someone a chance.”
Recruiting and training are crazy expensive, a bad hire can cost a company TONS of $$$.
If you want a chance, you need to get out there and create it.

Source: (5) LinkedIn

Some solid advice mixed with some unenforceable moonshots. Nice mix.

 
The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how irrational the financial sector has become. Even as the real economy has ground to a halt, stock prices have gyrated wildly, first collapsing, then shooting up. Even as hundreds of millions suffer, Wall Street’s frenzied speculative activities have led to big tech corporations like Apple gaining in value and making money hand over fist.
It is as if the global financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing recession and stagnation never happened. History explains why.
In early 2009, a newly inaugurated President Barack Obama corralled Wall Street’s most powerful CEOs into a White House dining room and chastised them for the recklessly high salaries and bonuses they paid themselves during a financial crisis they had caused.
“My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks,” he told them.

Source: After COVID: 10 Steps to Avert Global Financial Collapse | FORSEA

If the Philippines is a Catholic nation, or otherwise religious, how can it be morally bankrupt? It has a Constitution and laws. It has a broad educational system that teaches honesty and doing right things.
Yet the nation is morally bankrupt. Corrupt, incompetent, and fake in the sense that it persecutes the innocent, denies accountability for anything wrong, and trolls ‘yellow’s or ‘reds’ while considering their objections to be sedition or terror.

Source: The Philippines is morally bankrupt. What are we to do about it? | The Society of Honor: the Philippines