Empathy and our homeless project

I never warmed to Alain de Botton. For a number of reasons: 1) his Essays on Love were, I felt, dressed up as more than they actually were, and I felt I could have done better; and 2) but then he actually did it—wrote the thing—and I had not; 3) everything else that followed was [...]

David Bohm on creative curiosity

I came across the work of David Bohm last week, and took his collection of essays On Creativity away camping for the weekend.
Bohm was a physicist and theorist, and the book is a weaving of both science and philosophy. While working with the prevailing views of Quantum mechanics, Bohm also took a lateral [...]