Emily Friedel what do you think about this:

Sympathy is a way to distance ourselves from others, we block their pain by refusing to take on their viewpoint. In so doing, we protect ourselves from the thought that what they are struggling through could happen to us too. Like the coward’s way out. From a sympathetic position…

A Peek Behind the Tapestry — Hello

Wait, You Can Write Letters?

At present 57 people are following the Tapestry story. I am incredibly grateful to all of you. It’s a big ask — your time and attention — for my fiction.

You aren’t too smart to listen

A couple of years ago, Brendan Eich was ousted as CEO of Mozilla. It was a tough issue: he had contributed to the Proposition 8 campaign against marriage equality, but had done so as an individual. Mozilla contributors argued in both directions, but many felt that they…

Aaron,

Point-by-point to keep these threads straight:

1. I actually had a passage in here about individual sports and why, in my opinion, the social dimension of basketball heightens the possiblity of empathy. With something like tennis, I find myself both alienated by the sheer (ugh) Otherness of a…

How To Be A Great Developer

This was posted in 2014 by the awesome @funkatron — Yes, it’s a repost. The original seemed unavailable but @funkatron just sent me his original that is available here. He also has this available. It’s great advice all developers should take into consideration.