It’s been a great time in the part of the blogoshpere that I inhabit: lots of excellent posts. So here are some excellent posts that I have found from my travels in the blogosphere lately. First up a couple of posts from one of my new favourite bloggers, kaushik at beyond karma. First up is [...]
Just a quick personal update from me. I have only two days of a part-time job left. I have had this for about the past 14 months as well as a full-time job. I intend to never have this kind of life again. Working 6.5 days most weeks is just awful. I am very glad [...]
There are a couple of ideas that annoy me. The first is that we can do nothing. The second is that we can do everything. Both seem obviously nonsensical to me. The choices I make (eg whether to treat a friend well or badly) seem to make a big difference to the quality of my [...]
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Just a quick link to a post on mindfulness and pain management. It gives specific instances of the practices the author uses to manage pain and also mentions unhelpful advice (which lacks compassion). If you are managing chronic pain – or know someone who is – I think this is well worth reading. Would you [...]
After a big change am I still me? We have grown so much since we were six months old – does it make much sense to think of ourselves as being the same person? These are the sorts of things I’m puzzling about in my guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. [...]
I’ve been writing this blog for quite a while now. From what I can gather from the stats packages I use (they are all anonymous, so it is a bit of a guess) it looks like some of you at least have been following me for a while. I’ve been talking to you a lot. [...]
