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Brilliant

I've long loved a book called 'The Art of Travel' by Alain de Botton.  He's a modern-day philosopher who has the underrated gift of explaining complicated things in simple terms.  And he rarely allows his abstractions to become untethered from reality.

Here he is at TED, talking about why we may be suffering from career-envy.  It's quite brilliant:

March 09, 2010 |

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mum

David!!....look where you put the redundant apostrophe 21 hours ago.....it should be" APRIL FOOLS!".Being tired is NO excuse, m'boy ,to substitute the possessive singular when you need to use the plural.Tsk tsk!

Posted by: mum | April 02, 2010 at 11:08 AM

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