SET 20-18 A WEEK IN THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
by Alain de Botton
Category Archive: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
SET 16-17 TOUR NOTES
This week I’ll be putting out some personal notes from experiences I’ve had while touring through Europe.
APRIL 2017
quotes, columns and opinions
SET 13-17 ZEN QUOTES
Don’t think this is going to be any oriental-wellness-new-age bullshit. We’ll get straight to the point.
SET 42-16 NOTES FROM MY 2016 JOURNAL
In 2016, the news became more entertaining than Netflix. I can’t wait to see what will be the next season of our reality world.
SET 41-16 THE DEATH OF CINEMA
Our entertainment is now consumed online. This has had profound consequences on the type of entertainment being consumed and has lead to, in my opinion, the death of cinema.
SET 40-16 PORNIFIED CULTURE 2017
How pornography has become the reference for everything in our digital world. By Nikolas List
SET 38-16 VIDEO ESSAYS
What is a video essay? Video essays are like pornography in that, as the saying goes, you know it when you see it.
SET 36-16 A WEEK IN THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
From existentialism to sex, to love, to career anxiety, words of wisdom for the heart and soul.
SET 30-16 HOW TO KILL YOUR EGO
This week’s set is a series of quotes from Ryan Holiday’s article “25 Ways To Kill The Toxic Ego That Will Ruin Your Life”
SET 16-16 CHANGING EDUCATION PARADIGMS
by Sir Ken Robinson
set 12-16 THE WISDOM OF PESSIMISM
by Alain de Botton
SET 7-16 BILL MAHER vs FEMINISM
food for thought.
SET 3-16 HUMAN NATURE curated by Piol
a guest set curated by Piol
SET 2-16 STATUS ANXIEY by Alain De Botton
this set is based on the School of Life video (see link below), written by Alain de Botton
SET 42/15 – THE DARKEST TRUTH ABOUT LOVE
This week’s set is inspired by a short piece of writing by Alain de Botton (founder of School of Life)
SET 39/15 – 7 TED TALKS
7 TED talks carefully handpicked by your host.
SET 9/15 – A WEEK ON EDUCATION with KEN ROBINSON
“We spend the first three years of a child’s life teaching them to walk and speak and the next twelve years at school telling them to sit down and shut up.” -Ken Robinson
SET 7/15 – GOOD PORN*BAD PORN
Some food for thought.
SET 1/15 – NIETZSCHE WEEK
Behind his provocative statements, I believe that Nietzsche was profoundly idealistic.