Living Enterprise

The unbearable heaviness of ‘sacred’ ideas.

The sacred places around Jerusalem are the abode of very strong centrifugal forces — one will drive the other out….one that has power and force at the moment.

Becoming monstrosities

Both hate and love are within us — they are everyday expressions of our lives. We are already that.

But if we are also conscious and conscientious — reflective practitioners, we can change the relative proportions of things — we are active agents that can shape…

Understanding “Our Time” and “Other Times”

How do we understand ‘our time’? Our time is not really one thing — it is a sum-total Time of all our times together — each of us having a…

We thank you for the questions

You know something created is deeply good when, firstly, you wonder what questions someone was trying to explore, and answer, and secondly, when you are left with a whole bunch of questions that had never occurred to you before the encounter, and many new unanswered ones.

The economies of error — valuing mistakes and folly.

It just occurred to me that there are certain domains, where error has much value — such as in stamp and coin collecting.

AI, literacy and intelligence

We could possibly be intelligent about something that interests us and that too if we have the literacy. We do not possess literacy for many things in this world as we are limited.

Morning thoughts on AI and Consciousness

Someone might have a genetic predisposition to a disease — let us say, Cancer. The person does not develop cancer, but some offspring might — and the cancer cells decide to proliferate and flourish — build huge cancerous superstructures, abeit malignant to…

And, So, quietly fool the Dons!

This is the story of how new models of development supposedly work — delivering on promises of Good Days, or not!

SOME HISTORY

There was once a city — so beautiful it was called the Jewel City.

Time has no agency — other forces do, and humans can shape responses

Impermanence is our experience and understanding of time — in the material, phenomenological world.

One experience of impermanence is death — living, mortal beings. That is only one…