Jun 18, 20175 min read
DIMENSION FOUR
I don't like to think of time in the conventional manner. I once read a definition of time as, “a measure of change”. I always liked...
Jan 10, 20175 min read
QUESTIONING QUESTIONED QUESTIONS
I've been mildly criticized of “never asking questions” of other people. This has been brought up several times over the last few years...
Mar 5, 20141 min read
LESSONS ON PERCEPTION
Ms. Chan, I’m writing to you to let you know that many in our class had a problem with one of the slides that was shown on Tuesday. The...
Mar 27, 20136 min read
LOST IN ENCODING
I love books but hate reading. Growing up I struggled to read and always found it dreadfully boring. Not much has changed since then....
Jan 24, 20137 min read
VISUALIZATION
So there’s this thing: this nagging confusion I have that has been with me for as long as I can recall. The first time this confusion...
Aug 16, 20122 min read
OPTIMISM vs POSITIVITY
People sometimes ask if I think of myself as an optimistic person or as a pessimistic one. To be honest, I don’t think of myself either...
Oct 12, 20115 min read
THE WHOLE CANOEIST
“Body of missing canoeist recovered”, the newspaper headline reads. That can't possibly be what is meant, can it? They didn't find the...
Apr 9, 20108 min read
PRESCRIPTIONS
What I love the most about the Ten Commandments is that those stone tablets, we are told, were the only time God (G-d, Elohim, Yahweh,...
Nov 5, 20097 min read
THERE ARE TWO OF ME AND ONE OF THEM IS YOU
(Landa went to sleep early, the same way she did every night. She awakes in a hospital room.) Nope. [twelve minute pause] Nope. [eight...
Jun 2, 200965 min read
WHAT MORE COULD ONE WANT?
It was Wednesday February 7th, 2001, when Munro and I landed in Singapore. We arrived just after midnight, after more than nineteen hours...
