Articles by Dinah Jackson
Why People Dislike Their Boss -
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Dinah Jackson
If you are a manager or supervisor and feel that you are not liked on the job or that people talk behind your back, you are probably right. It's not that you are a bad person- rather, it's simply that dislike for the boss is...
All You Slowpokes Out There, Listen Up -
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Dinah Jackson
As I live in Japan I do some English teaching from time to time. But I'll never work again for one American man I know. Don't get me wrong- he's really a nice guy and has a great house in a peaceful, mountain setting. I...
Is It Dependency Or Love? -
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Dinah Jackson
Are you in a new relationship? Or have you been married for twenty years? It might seem shocking if I suggest that the base core of your relationship may not be love at all but dependency. Of course, if your relationship truly is not based...
Who Is The Worst In Entertainment -
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Dinah Jackson
Unfortunately, at the risk of offending any of my readers, I can't compile a list of the television programs, movies, and books that I hate the most. I can't restrain myself however from stating unequivocally that the barrage of sitcoms that came out in the...
Does Every Cloud Have A Silver Lining? -
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Dinah Jackson
Cliches are looked down upon, but sitting here today looking out my window, I realize that that so much wisdom has already been said in sayings and adages, and that they remind us of fundamental truths all of the time. Outside my window now are...
When You Wake Up, How Do You Feel? -
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Dinah Jackson
On most days I feel terrible when I wake up. Physically I don't feel all that great, but the worst is how I feel emotionally. Which is to say that on most mornings I wake up with dread, depressed, and full of resistance toward life....
What Is The Purpose Of Gossip? -
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Dinah Jackson
Unfortunately, I wish I had more insight into this topic. I'm thinking of the workplace more than the schoolyard or neighborhood bar, and in particular I'm thinking of all the workers I've seen who gossip about the bosses (including me) in every place I've ever...
Where Has All The Hope Gone? -
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Dinah Jackson
Most people see hope in an unrealistic way I believe. I know as a younger man I certainly did. In fact, especially as a child I was deluded by hope. But as I grew into my twenties, I began to sense that while my life...
Why Do We Work? -
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Dinah Jackson
This is a very serious question. Indeed, it is a grave one. Please spend a moment to calculate roughly what proportion of your life you spend at work. Then calculate how much of your life you spend sleeping. Finally, figure out what's left over and...
What Is The Definition Of Love? -
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Dinah Jackson
Love is a very difficult word to comprehend and digest. But it's not mushy, and it is absolutely necessary for us to grow and flourish, both individually and collectively. One problem with the word love is that it sounds corny, overly sentimental and weak. Ironically,...
Are We Really Getting Smarter Or Dumber? -
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Dinah Jackson
When I was kid at school back in the seventies we weren't allowed to use calculators on the assumption that reliance on them would make us dumber in math skills. When I look back now I think we were already pretty dumb in math anyway:...
Those Sayings That Will Never Be Dated -
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Dinah Jackson
I have no intention of engaging in controversy. I would never question anyone's faith or his or her right to believe in what they want. The fact remains with the Bible though that it is, in art and in conversation, the most quoted and referred...
Look Into The Ancient Mind -
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Dinah Jackson
These days it would of course be absurd to think of tribal peoples as being in any way at all less intelligent than humans in modern civilization, but this was in fact the assumption of probably most people until not long ago, including scientists in...
The Modern Technology Grid -
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Dinah Jackson
While it is undoubtedly true that there is upward momentum in, for example, computer hardware technology- every year they are a third to twice as fast and hold impressively larger amounts of memory than the year before- it is really the expanding applications of technology...
By Train Or By Plane In Japan? -
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Dinah Jackson
Traveling in Japan or Europe offers two wonderful choices: flying or bullet train. Although the United States is too vast to make the bullet train possible at this time, it could still make good use of it on the East and West coast, and in...
What To Do With Our Spare Time -
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Dinah Jackson
When I was a boy in the Seventies, I remember being told many times that in the future (meaning now) we would only work four days a week for short hours, and we would have lots and lots of days off. The problem and the...
The Truth About Self-Replicating Machines -
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Dinah Jackson
In the 'Terminator' science fiction movie series the machines turned against their human masters at a moment when the network suddenly became 'aware.' Self-awareness is just but one of many attributes that scientists and philosophers cite in the argument that artificial intelligence is anything remotely...
Emotional Complexity Of Robots -
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Dinah Jackson
There once was an AI test that posited success based upon an encounter with AI and a human being. If a human being walked away unable to say whether their companion during the test was human or not, this would imply all sorts of lofty...
The Future, Legumes, And The Sub-Continent -
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Dinah Jackson
Eating lunch at an Indian restaurant here in Tokyo can be a strange experience if you've ever traveled in India. In general you get a small bowl of gloppy curry (or several tiny bowls) and an enormous nan (Indian flatbread) that covers a quarter of...
The Crude Oil Blues -
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Dinah Jackson
I'm trying carefully to not Google anything before writing this. According to my memory as a boy in the early 1970's, we should really be feeling the oil crunch right now. I'm sure this is not accurate, but back then our teachers were telling us...
