Project Armannd

photo by: Toni F.
Many people seem to base their ideas about what is “true” and what is “false” upon some form of majority opinion. Sometimes it is a simple majority vote, sometimes a statistical sampling, while other times the “general consensus” of all people around the world. Whatever form it has, the basic premise that [...]

photo by: Scr47chy
When someone’s life isn’t exactly perfect, friends and family usually advise that person to look at the bright side of things, at what is positive.

When businesses fail, the managers who took them to the ground do the same thing; they look at the positive aspects of their failing businesses.

The two examples above share [...]

photo by: *etoile*
It has been a while since I wrote my last article. It has been a while since I wrote anything longer than simple chat lines on IM and answers to comments. Hopefully, I haven’t lost whatever writing skills I managed to develop since the starting of this project.

The period in which I’ve been [...]

(continued from part 2)

In the previous two posts I wrote about some of the ethical issues with which the self-improvement “industry” is faced these days. However, those problems might be of small importance for the end-users, the consumers at the market end of the chain.

The #1 issue for the consumer is this, “does it work? [...]

(continued from part 1)

The first four issues of self-improvement, from the previous article:

Industrialized short lived artificial value;
Lack of coherence and/or connection between the presented ideas;
Lack of closure;
Inexistent entry bars.

The target of the series is to innovate the self-improvement (or self-help, whatever you call it) concept so that it will actually benefit real people.

At the moment, [...]