"Most people here are avoiding sea food because they think all fishes have eaten bodies of victims of tsunami"

"At least in Mumbia"

"That's a lot of nonesense"

"yes"

"tsunami corpses would have floated towards singapore and bangkok, not mumbai"

I love Douglas Rushkoff. He is deeply engaged in the things that he cares about, he writes, makes music, comics, writes textbooks, engages in social analysis and criticism, engages in random fun with the Madagascar Institute, etc.

Oh, and he has a cool caricature of himself on his website...

Last year he wrote an essay called It's safer outside. The basic idea is the in hind sight obvious observation that having a job is not a guarantee of much of anything.

I love the essay. The next component (well, he touches on it as well) is that when you have a job you have your whole professional life tied up in one package. Plus a chunk of your personal life.

I know other people do better (at everything, right?), but I have a wretched record of maintaining social and professional ties with former coworkers.

These themes matter a lot to me. It is vital for me at this point in time to strengthen and extend my professional and social connections. Larger and stronger networks lead to more opportunities to do the things that I value. Sure money and business flow from them, but it is more important to be connected. ... so read the article.