Living ethically

It was Descartes, too, who formed the project of a School of Arts and Crafts, where each artisan would learn fully to understand the theoretical bases of his own craft; he thus showed himself to be more socialist, in the matter of culture, than all Marx’s disciples

Culture, he announced defiantly, had become the new counterculture.

This idea of multiplicity—the ability to accept multiple realities at once—is critical to healthy relationships

We’ve been given no shortage of digital tools that should, in theory, help us work better, with more focus and efficiency, and connect us more easily with our colleagues. Instead, email, instant messaging, remote-meeting apps, work-flow and project-management software and so on can feel like so many buckets with holes in the bottom, maddeningly in

I’ve always felt that if there wasn’t so much pressure—just a little more time—I could do really well.