Comments for Practicalist http://practicalist.com/blog Practicalist is a blog by Ben Clemens. Its interest in ideas is to treat them as though they are people, with complex emotional, spiritual, and intellectual needs. It follows Richard Rorty in avoiding the attempt "to unite 'beauty and justice' in some kind of seamlessly perceived whole ... the consequence of such an attempt is to harden political aspirations into rigid ideologies and to distort reality by ... aestheticizing it." Fri, 15 Feb 2013 06:00:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Design is a good story by admin http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=428#comment-155 admin Fri, 15 Feb 2013 06:00:33 +0000 http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=428#comment-155 Wonderful article, thank you!

]]> Comment on Design is a good story by Dassi http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=428#comment-154 Dassi Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:02:53 +0000 http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=428#comment-154 Hi Ben!

I saw that you are speaking in April – that’s awesome! Anyways, I was thinking about your note about storytelling and found this article and thought of you:

Storytelling to relieve sorrow….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/07/stephen-grosz-psychoanalyst?CMP=twt_fd

Have you heard of this guy? It struck me that there are all sorts of reasons we tell stories… to connect, to heal, to motivate, to escape…

- Dassi

]]> Comment on My Mom by Bfranross http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=366#comment-99 Bfranross Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:26:04 +0000 http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=366#comment-99 Beautiful life story, thank you for sharing. If my son ever wrote such a lovely and clear tribute for me, I would be very proud.

]]> Comment on My Mom by Gino Zahnd http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=366#comment-57 Gino Zahnd Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:18:03 +0000 http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=366#comment-57 Ben, I’m sorry for your loss. I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer last year. If you ever need to talk, you know where to find me.

]]> Comment on glare of attention by pointblog.com http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=274#comment-19 pointblog.com Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:00:20 +0000 http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=274#comment-19 ShoZu s’installe

]]> Comment on glare of attention by BryceKujala.com http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=274#comment-18 BryceKujala.com Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:43:54 +0000 http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=274#comment-18 When I grow up, I want to be a buzz marketing campaign

I am so amused by this. I work with Ben, so the idea that he doesn’t exist amuses me to no end. Although I have always suspected that he was some sort of non-existant marketing tool.
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]]> Comment on authentic media by Ben http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=263#comment-17 Ben Mon, 01 May 2006 20:41:26 +0000 http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=263#comment-17 both good points, but 1. I don’t think the real truths about ourselves are ever really boring, just the everyday things, and 2. the internet has been a much more durable medium than any physical format: things that I put up on my Web server ten years ago I still have, whereas everything I had on hard disks has been lost a couple times. And: it’s not all public, just some of it, according to what part of it I want to be public.

]]> Comment on authentic media by Chico Gino http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=263#comment-16 Chico Gino Mon, 01 May 2006 20:25:16 +0000 http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=263#comment-16 A couple of comments:
1) Perhaps the reason most bloggers are aspiring to manage some bullshit public persona is because the modest pieces of their lives – the small bits that actually consume them – are so painfully boring that they’re not worth telling.
2) It mostly scares me to put the small, modest pieces of my life online for two reasons. A) It’s not anyone’s business and B) I don’t trust that this electronic format will be there for me to remember even a couple years from now. I used to think it was a good idea, but I’ve lost count of the myriad zip disks and all the other Authentic Media

]]> Comment on words my baby knows [with pronunciation guide] by Jill http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=261#comment-15 Jill Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:08:55 +0000 http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=261#comment-15 I think she knows applesauce, but not apple.
This list is like a poem to me

]]> Comment on “Parenting” by Ben Clemens http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=258#comment-14 Ben Clemens Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:11:17 +0000 http://practicalist.com/blog/?p=258#comment-14 I heard that!

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