I've been wondering the same thing. For me, I think the new site feels slightly sluggish and the design and/or implementation feels clunky. I switched back to classic though so no productivity gains for me.
No one is arguing that people belong to their employers. Poaching is a standard term to describe the process of strategically hiring people who are already working at a specific company.
Check out Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind for a good book on practicing meditation. It's not religious, but basically a transcript of a Zen Master's talks on zen and the practice of meditation to his group of students. It's what I recommend to people who want to 'get' meditation.
Not specifically related to meditation, but The Tao of Pooh is still the best book I know of that deals with the concepts behind this stuff. I re-read these books whenever I lose my way, which happens more often than I'd like to admit ;)
I'm currently reading The Instinct to Heal by David Servan-Schreiber [0]. It's not specifically about mindfulness, but so far I found it everything to be what I was looking for when I was looking for writings on these topics. On the internet I've seen a lot of essays pass by about mindfulness, but they're all a bit alike. This book is interesting to me because it gives info about methods I didn't know about, and provides scientific data and references to base its claims.
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153401.The_Instinct_to_H...
This argument is pretty disingenuous. Some wealthy individuals were born into very privileged families and some poor people remain poor due to exploitation, but that certainly does not apply universally.
>Highest bidder would work great and allow excellent prioritization if everyone had roughly the same means.
I'm not sure why this system only works well when everyone has the same means. As the article points out, a price increase for a good or service can actually incentivize people to increase supply (people who initially decided to take the night off from driving now decide to work in order to cash in since demand is high). In other industries this can lead to more competition and innovation as well.
>Some wealthy individuals were born into very privileged families ... certainly does not apply universally
Sure I agree--like the guy who came up with processing debit transactions in order of dollar-amount instead of in order of transaction-time when calculating overdraft fees.. like that guy probably got a huge bonus for coming up with the scheme, and he probably didn't get the idea from his grandpa's will.
>the argument that says medallions are bad public policy because they're monopolistic applies equally to many other forms of licensure, for instance zoning.
True; many of those other forms of licensure are also bad.
"Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"
No matter where you come down on the political spectrum, examining the correct role of government in our lives is a worthwhile pursuit. Painting these debates as "lazy" and "simpleminded" makes no sense.
What I can't stand is that they completely broke search for chats. Previously you could prepend your query with "is:chat" and get individual conversations returned as you would expect. These days you're given your entire "hangout" histories with various people and when you click them you have to frantically scroll to locate the relevant portion that matches your query.
