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Interesting Things on the Internet: December 15th 2014

• Start-ups and Emotional Debt That is, treating “the money problem” as a strict subset of “the life problem” is a mistake. As tempting as it is for programmers, it’s impossible to divide-and-conquer the good life. Like it or not, “the money problem,” “the love problem,” “the friendship problem,” and “the true-passion-in-life problem” are all intertwined, and they develop together. That’s part of what makes life so interesting.
• Stewart Lee: “I don’t mind causing offence when I intend to, but I don’t like causing it accidentally”. Great interview on all sorts of topics like social mobility and politics.
• What I Learned From Building An App For Low-Income Americans.
• Why I Joined The New Artists’ Union. In the recent art project I've worked on about 30 years since the Miners' Strike there's been some thought-provoking discussion about the place of unions; whether I'd strike if the same situation arose; and which union I'd be part of. So it's interesting to see that there is a fledgling union for artists. Not that I'm sure that I'd qualify.
• Inside the brain of a designer. A lovely video showing the (/a) creative process.
• Sarah Churchwell: why the humanities matter Let me answer the question: what’s all this art for? It’s for us.