Seems to me that many of us have found we can pawn our l33t skills in the workplace to coerce the acceptance we are still smarting from not getting in junior high (and why not? It was SERIOUS).
Problem is it does not really work. Jobs are just about dollars, and they exist at the whim of the market, as you point out. Trying to prop yourself up based on workplace status is to build on shifting sands.
Like some enduring respect for your skills? Get involved in a GPL project.
Like some respect for your financial position? Invest in real-estate.
Like to wipe out those junior high memories? Take Salsa or Lambada lessons (I am not kidding).
Me? I just want sharks with frikken laser beams, goddamnit!!!
There are some studies that link brain lateralization to personality in birds and mamals, which provides an explanation of the survival benefits of having both left and right handed members in a species:
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1139554.ht m/
(Ask yourself - who do the marmosets remind you of??)
Someone else did a game theory analysis of how predation could lead to lateral specialisation in prey as a survival strategy, but I don't have the link.
For the profoundly right lateralized(~LH), you might appreciate these marmosets also:
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
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Seems to me that many of us have found we can pawn our l33t skills in the workplace to coerce the acceptance we are still smarting from not getting in junior high (and why not? It was SERIOUS). Problem is it does not really work. Jobs are just about dollars, and they exist at the whim of the market, as you point out. Trying to prop yourself up based on workplace status is to build on shifting sands. Like some enduring respect for your skills? Get involved in a GPL project. Like some respect for your financial position? Invest in real-estate. Like to wipe out those junior high memories? Take Salsa or Lambada lessons (I am not kidding). Me? I just want sharks with frikken laser beams, goddamnit!!!
Excluding the posts above, I *finally* have a first post.....
There are some studies that link brain lateralization to personality in birds and mamals, which provides an explanation of the survival benefits of having both left and right handed members in a species: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1139554.ht m/
(Ask yourself - who do the marmosets remind you of??)
Someone else did a game theory analysis of how predation could lead to lateral specialisation in prey as a survival strategy, but I don't have the link.
For the profoundly right lateralized(~LH), you might appreciate these marmosets also:
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/