<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 23:32:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/extie/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[How Money Can Disincentivize Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[HOW MONEY CAN DISINCENTIVIZE WORK Does monetary reward really provide the best incentive to work? If you live within a system that commodifies everything, turning it into private property that you cannot]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/money/@extie-dasilva/how-money-can-disincentivize-work</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/money/@extie-dasilva/how-money-can-disincentivize-work</guid><category><![CDATA[money]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[extie-dasilva]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:47:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8hHVpauQQYxf1TdvQS1z9GA56bB7fCRpDdWShtN1zWWUy2prhcQaQaG2ArJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Star Wars A New Hope in Verse.]]></title><description><![CDATA[STAR WARS ‘A NEW HOPE’ IN VERSE A long time ago, In a region of space, A rebel cruiser tried to out-pace, A star destroyer of mighty size, A hopeless task, they soon realised. All the guards waited for]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poem/@extie-dasilva/star-wars-a-new-hope-in-verse</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poem/@extie-dasilva/star-wars-a-new-hope-in-verse</guid><category><![CDATA[poem]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[extie-dasilva]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:44:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8hHVpauQQYxf1TddB7eVMWZH3rQYaR1b3RMKLX2ykvV5zoFoezfhJgaPVLA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[My One-off Experience With 'Grow Home']]></title><description><![CDATA[MY ONE-OFF EXPERIENCE WITH ‘GROW HOME’. Sometimes in life you can have an experience that will never be repeated again. I believe that I had an experience such as that when I played Ubisoft’s videogame]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/videogames/@extie-dasilva/my-one-off-experience-with-grow-home</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/videogames/@extie-dasilva/my-one-off-experience-with-grow-home</guid><category><![CDATA[videogames]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[extie-dasilva]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:53:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8hHVpauQQYxf1TfhnLExsmkqP1nY9twBGeh2qZ4qBR41VK2iUcwG6BTBYDc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[HUMAN NATURE (?)]]></title><description><![CDATA[HUMAN NATURE (?) (This essay is the ninth part of the series ‘How Jobs Destroyed Work’) There is this commonly-held belief that there are people who ‘don’t want to work’. I find it hard to believe that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/work/@extie-dasilva/human-nature</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/work/@extie-dasilva/human-nature</guid><category><![CDATA[work]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[extie-dasilva]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2016 16:31:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8hHVpauQQYxf1UwfxCXZHx8X8d8ZgswjxrYEg4BsS4mPLfkKtjaTz4xpUpE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Singularity!]]></title><description><![CDATA[While reading ‘The History of God’ by Karen Armstrong, I discovered that the word ‘holy’ has two different meanings. It struck me that both definitions of ‘holy’ equate to two different conceptions of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/transhumanism/@extie-dasilva/holy-singularity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/transhumanism/@extie-dasilva/holy-singularity</guid><category><![CDATA[transhumanism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[extie-dasilva]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:20:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob's Bad Day- A Short Sci Fi Story]]></title><description><![CDATA[BOB’S BAD DAY. Today was the worst day of Bob’s life. The only consolation to be drawn from that was the fact that it also happened to be the last day of Bob’s life. Although, in a typical moment of bitter]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/extie/@extie-dasilva/bob-s-bad-day-a-short-sci-fi-story</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/extie/@extie-dasilva/bob-s-bad-day-a-short-sci-fi-story</guid><category><![CDATA[extie]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[extie-dasilva]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:41:18 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>