Michele Pasin / Quotes

A pseudonym is not a second self

The banal reality is that the maintenance of different identities does not go deep to the core of Magnanti’s soul, but was simply a necessary means of keeping up some barriers for reasons of confidentiality and privacy. Most obviously, there is nothing philosophically profound about the fact she didn’t use her real name for her sex work:

Saved 23 April 2015

#identity #work #name

L'azienda come seconda identità

Non si valuta tanto, o non solo, lo stipendio o il salario, quanto piuttosto l’appartenenza a una certa azienda, un riconoscimento sociale in termini di…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #work #companies #identity #employees

Money as a center

Sometimes there are apparently noble reasons given for making money, such as the desire to take care of one’s family. And these things are important. But to…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #money #work #identity

Work-centered people

Work-centered people may become “workaholics,” driving themselves to produce at the sacrifice of health, relationships, and other important areas of their…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #work #identity #burnout

A restaurant missing from the guidebooks

Despite that distinction, or because of it, the Saurabh was small and relatively unknown. Its name didn’t appear in any of the guidebooks for tourists or the…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #name #distinction #newspapers

Amazon xray feature

The new X-ray feature takes things a step further. Clicking on it will bring up a list of proper names, including characters, historical figures and places…

Amazon Kindle Touch Review #book #name #figures

Bacon abandons the model of the semantic triangle: words signify the things themselves

2) In his account of signification of words regarding their ‘impositio’ Bacon accentuates the arbitrariness of meaning.[28] But even though the first…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #words #Bacon #semantics #name #things