The feeling of achievement
How a mediocre game of tennis reveals the key to the sense of achievement.
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Act your age
When I turned 30, too many years ago to mention, I raised a glass and toasted my entry to middle age. Everyone else was shocked by this, thinking I was being premature. Perhaps the real reason for their recoiling was that if 30 really was middle aged, that made the rest of them either middle-aged themselves, too close to it for comfort or—god forbid—old…
ReadStop conflating education with employability
Education is now routinely advocated and defended on the basis of its ability to prepare people for the world of work. Art teaches creativity, philosophy critical thinking, history empathy, sport dedication, and all these things are good because they are transferable skills that can be monetised.
ReadWe are Dubai
I’ve just come back from a working weekend in Dubai. I arrived finding it weird and alien. I left realising that I’ve been living in Dubai most of my life and if you’re reading this, you probably have too.
ReadThe unsurprising vices of philosophers
The assumption that philosophy involves the careful study of ethics and that would tend to make people more ethical is questionable for several reasons.
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