The Mechanical Turk Diaries

Voices of Amazon's Anonymous Workforce Mechanical Turk


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Your life story! A story that has already been written by you, enacted by you, lived by you as well as read by you yourself! Have a heart-moving story of your life to tell? Click here to share your story with visitors to this page! Why don’t you give us a chance to read it too? After all it is a real-life story! And every real story has all the seeds of becoming a classic in itself. People may love you for what you have written - a moving life story of yours, or a short memoir of yours relating to your family, your school, your friends, your relationships, your struggles, your successes, your failures, your sports that you loved playing, your best entertainments, your adventures, your career, your business, your tryst with money, your unique travel experiences, your romances, your love stories, your sex perceptions as well as your sex problems, your marriage with your beloved when the skies rained flowers, your creative parenting or the problems you faced in it, your health concerns, your cultural fondness, your religious and spiritual faiths, your equation with your society around, your political ideas and preferences, your management skills in office as well as at home with an emphasis upon managing you life in Toto, and your original insights into how to change the world. What is love if not our sensitive concern for the ones we start feeling close to, by knowing them a little bit more closely? The more we know about someone, the more we sense her/him, the more we associate with her/him, and the more we feel concerned about her/him - in effect, the more we love the person. Let us love each other and let us love one another. Since it is love only that is going to solve all the problems on earth! So, go down the memory lane and do not hesitate to come out with the best pearls of your life on the tips of your fingers on the keyboard. We are eagerly waiting for the best life story that is yet to be told on earth. May be - and it quite may be - it is your life story only that the world has so impatiently been waiting for since the dawn of humanity! Since it is not the visible heights that a story measures, but the invisible depths that it fathoms; which make a story great! May be it’s you who has it - the depth! Choose out of any of the following domains of life-facets that your story naturally fits in and submit it there by clicking on its link here:No more now! We have gone too occupied with our families to sense each other without any material concern between the two of us. Family We have turned insensitive. You might try to refute me here. You could say you are very sensitive for your wife/husband or your parents, your siblings or your kids - in short, for your relationships; but the two sensitivities are very different from each other. Rather they are opposite to each other. My sensitivity for my family is emotional in nature. I am bothered about my family members. I am worried about them. I feel anxious when something wrong happens to anyone of them. I feel a sense of duty toward them. In fact, I extend my identity into as well as onto them. The two merge into one.I propose replacing family with community - the neighborhood community having a professionally run community kitchen, which will turn our dining experience tastier, cheaper, more nutritious as well as more colorful as community dining is certainly going to be a more interactive incident than only the same two or three people eating together everyday. Family The more, the merrier! The way to the heart always passes through the stomach! The basic building block of the society is going to be the individual as such, and not family any more. Won’t this new arrangement open new vistas as far as interaction between the community members is concerned? Won’t it give a new colorful dimension to our social life - much more than our family life? Family Won’t this community life turn into an entertaining club all through our mornings and all through our evenings - the club of interaction, the club of knowledge acting as a full-fledged school for our kids as well, the club of all kinds of sports for us as well as for our kids, the club of cultural amalgamation, the club of arts and crafts, and the club of music and dance? We together can afford much bigger and much better space to live a better quality of life than we individually, or with family, can! Something like a five-star hotel where everyone has her/his private corner in one of the suites allotted to her/him - it needs more creativity than it needs money! And the membership of the community is not going to be a fixed one for life, like in a family it is; it would keep changing with a transfer of a member’s job leaving the area or an establishment of a new business by a new prospective member coming to the area. New faces, keeping it fresh and green! Together we can, divided we can’t! Of course, together we stand; divided we fall. Do you feel things should change in life, on earth? If yes, why sit passive? Let’s be in the active vanguard.

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