Craft before inspiration
The romantic image of a profession starts work with inspiration and continues with uninterrupted pleasure. Craft begins where the result can be produced on an ordinary day too, without asking…
The 37 Percent Rule, or When to Stop Looking
The search for an ideal usually ends in marriage to the first person who turns up. — An ironic aphorism The mathematically perfect search for a partner starts with unwelcome…
Don’t Shut Off the Warmth
Romantic and family folklore treats the disappearance of warmth as a normal way to show how serious the offence was. But cold silence easily turns closeness into a system of…
Not Becoming a Pack
School morality and adult morality usually present bullying as a conflict between an aggressor and a victim. In reality it almost always needs an audience that laughs, stays silent, or…
Answer 42
The culture around artificial intelligence has quickly produced a new oracle. Word the request correctly and the machine supposedly hands over an answer that used to require an education, experience…
Is more choice always better?
The best is the enemy of the good. — Voltaire A table with twenty-four kinds of jam stopped more shoppers; a table with six ended in a purchase more often.…