Knowing, Not Knowing, and Learning

On Tagines, Liszt, and Programming

Love in the time of uncertainty

Featuring The Black Eyed Peas, Rumi, and ප-ප රප ප-ම්

On Statistical Significance

When is significant not significant?

“Almost anything can be attacked as a loss of amenity, and almost anything can be defended as not a significant loss of amenity, which seems to signify that one should appreciate the…

On Discipline

In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti

What makes great great?

On the essence of greatness

A culinary example

Breath on a Knife edge

On minding, commenting and doing

Blood, Bile and Sweat

On not doing meditation

And what Descartes might have said

Doing

On Freedom from Freedom

The OED defined freedom as:

On Anti-Thought

And the perils of meetings in tall buildings

Today, I had a meeting on one of the top floors of a high-rise building. At the ground-floor reception, I realised I didn’t know which floor.