I remember being a kid and learning about virtues. One week, we would learn about courage. The other, love; then another, about courage. On and on it went—with one major question, brought up again and again by my friends and I, remaining largely unanswered: what about the relationship between these virtues? I can’t blame my… Read More The Delicate Dance of Virtues
There has been a lot in the news about fake news, which could get one caught in a vicious cycle about wondering if the news about fake news is fake which I guess would prove the whole point of the concern in the first place. Well this blog post is off to quite a start…… Read More So About That Echo Chamber We’re Stuck In…
There are a lot of ways to make people behave the way you want them to—and, by extension, to make your children behave the way you want them to. In a post uploaded in August 2008, I looked into a programme that encouraged good behaviour in students by giving them points they could exchange for… Read More The Power of an Internal Incentive to Behave
There is an exciting discourse gaining increasing momentum online: how to use what the world has to give us—food, clothes, stuff—to live a better life, rather than living life to collect increasing amounts of food, clothes, and stuff. There is the minimalist movement, the sharing economy, the buy local movement, and, of course, efforts to… Read More Fulfilling Our Individual Responsibility Towards Global Economic Life
{ This guest post was written by my childhood friend Esther } Before finding out about my pregnancy, I had been speaking with friends a lot about the idea of transformation, something that should “manifest itself both outwardly and inwardly”, and should “affect both its inner life and external conditions.” Pregnancy, the most literal human… Read More It’s Not All About The Nausea: Pregnancy As a Transformative Experience { Guest Post }
A lot of important elections have been happening around the world lately, and, as many prepare to vote, it has come to my attention that we spend way too much time looking into things that do not matter at the expense of looking carefully into what does matter. For example, I was reading about the… Read More Who Cares About What They Wear: Choosing Who To Vote For
I’ve been going through my older posts systematically in the last couple of weeks and taking the time to write an updated post on the many topics I touched upon since launching this blog in 2008. It’s interesting to see how some things have really not changed in the last nine years, how some have… Read More Eliminating Extreme Poverty: Possible Personal Contributions
I run into a very interesting dilemma every couple of months or so. It goes a little something like this. I regularly update my media kit so that I have something at the ready for the various inquiries that come my way. I have an Excel sheet in which every couple of months I chart… Read More When Your Voice Isn’t Deemed Good Enough
When I twisted my ankle back in 2008, I remember how a whole new world opened up to me right where I had been living for a number of years. On the one hand, I saw just how selfish, self-centered, and unaware people were, as they would rush by me and ignore the fact that… Read More Choosing to Turn Towards the Good: A Powerful, Empowering Choice
I wasn’t very good with titles back in 2008, and this post is solid proof of the lack of title-writing skills. The reflection though is still something that I constantly think about: the ever-present dichotomy the work of some artists and their personal lives. And in this case, think of “artist” in the broad sense… Read More An Artist’s Life And An Artist’s Art: How Coherent Should They Be?