Author: Werner Patels
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Boundaries are more important than ever
The unthinkable has happened: more people than ever before work from home—all thanks to a virus. Unlike those of us who chose to be self-employed a long time ago, making it a gradual process of much deliberation before taking the plunge, people were sent for a timeout in the home office virtually overnight, from one…
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Where Television Goes To Die…
Good Old Hollywood Is Dying, was a 1974 song, in English, by the Austrian duo Waterloo & Robinson. Looking at what Hollywood does today, I’m singing or humming this song almost all the time.
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Twenty years down memory lane
The other day, I saw that Sean Connery had turned 90. Yes, the original James Bond is 90 years old. And instantly I was transported back about twenty years, to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) cafeteria, where Sean and I were chatting at the time. So, I began thinking: What else was I doing at…
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Learning for life
Non scholae sed vitae discimus, as they used to say in Latin. We do not learn for school, but for life. There’s no difference between formal education (schools, colleges, universities) and informal education—except that you have to sit for exams and obtain a piece a paper under the former.
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YouTube Music will prove Google’s downfall
Watch, listen, read—this is what most people use the internet for. They watch movies and TV shows, they listen to music, and read newspapers, magazines and books. When it comes to getting one’s entertainment fix, or educating oneself about this or that, these are good times to be alive. But sometimes things happen that make…