How mindful should we be?
Be mindful of the perennial mistake of zealots everywhere, of elevating a good to the good, inevitably making it worse, not better.
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How important is curiosity?
It’s very difficult to maintain a thriving curiosity without it being somewhat random. In his essay on curiosity, philosopher David Hume noted that there is a pleasure to be had simply in the “invention and discovery” of truth, whatever it might be. The curious will find themselves drawn to anything that stimulates this delight.
ReadIs the digital economy a threat?
Imagine being young and having to do up to seven years of unpaid work experience before you could get gainful employment. This is not a doom-laden prediction for the future but a factual description of a lot of apprentices from the middle ages to the industrial revolution
ReadWill something turn up?
Pizzas don’t order themselves and life as a whole is even less obliging. Chance will play its part whatever we do, but it will dictate everything only if we let it.
ReadRuby Wax interview
“I used to need 4,000 people looking at me, now I’m down to 400.”
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