A Spanish friend recently shared this podcast with me, which is based on this article from the same outlet: La cultura de quedar para ponerse al día con amigos: por qué ya no compartimos la vida, nos la resumimosEn la era de la hiperproductividad, las amistades adultas son cada vez
Martinique, 2007 On Wednesday, 29 November 2007, at 15:00:19 Atlantic Standard Time, the earth under the eastern Caribbean shook. I was talking to Mandella, a friend from home. It was our first semester at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She was studying law and
qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of men or boys. That's one way Oxford defines masculinity. There's of course a lot more to be said about it, but in this post I just have a few questions. Software developers are overwhelmingly male and software development is
I'm behind on my writing challenge posts, so I'll turn what was growing into a long WhatsApp message into a short post. The subject of the post is this. I don't know how long it'll stay up on PasteBin, so I'
The friend I mentioned in my article about why the Anthropic Principle is a bad response to the Fine Tuning Problem isn't convinced. We haven't fully talked about why yet, but while talking a bit about it another problem broadly in the area that he and
CS Lewis dedicated The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe to his goddaughter. He wrote in the preface, My dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old
It's 11:00 AM on a summer Sunday. A 19 year old Canadian and her boyfriend have just arrived at King's Cross Station for their 11:16 train to Cambridge. They squint at the display screen. "Awaiting Platform" He looks at his watch. "
I've been talking to a friend recently about the Fine-Tuning Argument for the existence of God and about a response to it called The Anthropic Principle, which he finds convincing and I do not. In this post I'll lay out briefly what the Fine Tuning Argument
If you’ve talked to me much in the last few months you’re likely to have heard me mention the name “Carlos Alcaraz”. He’s the best thing in tennis right now and the main reason I follow the sport. My interest in tennis goes back to before he
Today is Thanksgiving Day in the US. I’m not American, I don’t live in America, and none of my American friends are close enough to invite me to a Thanksgiving Dinner. But given that I’m known to rant about how much I hate the way the UK
One way of thinking of my investment split is between “ethical” funds or indexes and regular ones. The ethical ones are ones that are labelled as Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) or ones that meet Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. Over the last few months I’ve been rethinking whether
We got out of our taxi and looked around. Juan checked his phone. “Let’s go inside. Polo is there with the others.” I looked around. The taxi had dropped us off outside a skyscraper. The area was nice and modern in a vaguely American – maybe New York – way, with