We all have our optimal balance between work and leisure that must be decided personally. I think that the increasing flexibility of “work hours” is a good thing. It lets us work when we are most capable (and willing) to work, and rest when need to rest.
“Fast food eaters underestimate the calories they are consuming.”
What a waste of time and money to be studying this, honestly. These findings say nothing substantive about any meaningful information that policymakers would be able to glean from to make changes. It is more than self-evident that people who go to fast food places are not worried about caloric and/or nutritional intake whatsoever. They go for convenience and/or taste purposes.
There is some truth to this and reason to be concerned about how culture is affected by the overabundance of reliance on tech devices. They bring many positive things to our lives but the negatives should also be thought about more closely than we do. I don’t look forward to the day that communal culture that we see in developing countries oftentimes comes to an end as we’ll simply occupy ourselves with technologies that replace human interaction and promote an obsession with work.
I see what you are saying, although replacing an old culture with a better one (I disagree that human interaction is inhibited) is progress. Where we go with it is something that we as individuals need to decide.
The last two places I vacationed didn’t have cell phone access during the day. I could check email and return phone calls in the morning and again at night, but there was no work that could be done while hiking in the mountains.
When patients get more involved in their care, the bills are often higher.
This is not surprising. In this case the so-called “shared decision making” was little more than patients demanding they get more aggressive care. The problem isn’t that patients often want more than their doctor’s recommend. It’s that patients don’t bear the cost of their decisions.
“A multimillionaire president nominated a billionaire who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for his campaigns, and he sent her to be confirmed by the millionaires’ club that is the U.S. Senate.”
– This is the way the world works. Not surprised with this.
“Smart phones have killed the three-day weekend.”
We all have our optimal balance between work and leisure that must be decided personally. I think that the increasing flexibility of “work hours” is a good thing. It lets us work when we are most capable (and willing) to work, and rest when need to rest.
“Fast food eaters underestimate the calories they are consuming.”
What a waste of time and money to be studying this, honestly. These findings say nothing substantive about any meaningful information that policymakers would be able to glean from to make changes. It is more than self-evident that people who go to fast food places are not worried about caloric and/or nutritional intake whatsoever. They go for convenience and/or taste purposes.
“Smart phones have killed the three-day weekend.”
There is some truth to this and reason to be concerned about how culture is affected by the overabundance of reliance on tech devices. They bring many positive things to our lives but the negatives should also be thought about more closely than we do. I don’t look forward to the day that communal culture that we see in developing countries oftentimes comes to an end as we’ll simply occupy ourselves with technologies that replace human interaction and promote an obsession with work.
@Tim
Exactly. How much is money is ACA going to cost businesses to tell us something that we don’t really care about at that point?
@Andrew
I see what you are saying, although replacing an old culture with a better one (I disagree that human interaction is inhibited) is progress. Where we go with it is something that we as individuals need to decide.
Smart phones have killed the three-day weekend.
The last two places I vacationed didn’t have cell phone access during the day. I could check email and return phone calls in the morning and again at night, but there was no work that could be done while hiking in the mountains.
“Fast food eaters underestimate the calories they are consuming”
– I don’t consciously think about how many calories I’m consuming when I go to a fast food place. I just assume it’s a lot!
When patients get more involved in their care, the bills are often higher.
This is not surprising. In this case the so-called “shared decision making” was little more than patients demanding they get more aggressive care. The problem isn’t that patients often want more than their doctor’s recommend. It’s that patients don’t bear the cost of their decisions.
“A multimillionaire president nominated a billionaire who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for his campaigns, and he sent her to be confirmed by the millionaires’ club that is the U.S. Senate.”
– This is the way the world works. Not surprised with this.
@Laytin
It is the way the world works, but since the subjects are a President and significant number of Senators who hate “the rich” it is quite poignant.