Life360 Offers Family Safety 2.0 | Epicenter | Wired.com
This service looks like an interesting one, where you can plan for all sorts of disasters.
What I though was more interesting, though, was this passage from the article quoting one of the company's founders, Chris Hull:
“Literally, I joked with my roommate, ‘what if one of us got cancer and died and had never been anything else but an investment banker?’” said Hulls. “A week later, they found a tumor in my neck.”I found it interesting that he thought investment banking wasn't a "meaningful" thing to do with one's life. What makes one career more meaningful than another? If you create things, is that considered meaningful? If you provide a worthwhile service, is that meaningful? Are some services more worthy than others?
All these questions lie at the heart of existential philosophy. Heidegger said that the first question of philosophy must be "why am I here?" He talks about the "authentic" life being superior to the "unauthentic" life. The difference between the two being that the former consists of a life where one analyzes one's self and one's existence instead of just participating in life.
