A great read on what we can learn from the Museum of Failed Products: embracing failure as failure, not only as a technique for achieving success.

So death is bad, right? If you start thinking about why exactly this should be considered true, things get a bit complicated. In this brilliant article, Yale philosophy professor Shelly Kagan ponders the possible explanations – dismissing one after the other. A perfect example of what the Weekly Filet is about: challenge your assumptions, make your head spin.

An interesting essay on the trouble with work, the trouble without. Towards the end, there’s this realisation: “The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves.”

We think we understand others better than they understand us. We think of our own actions as neutral and judge others by theirs. Good read from a book titled “You Are Not So Smart” by David McRaney, released last autumn. In this excerpt, McRaney is connecting dots between an infamous psychological experiment in the 50ies, today’s social media and the perception of self and other in general to make this point: You are driven to create and form groups and then believe others are wrong just because they are others. The trailer to the book is worth watching, too.