PinnedSentient AI — evil or enlightened?Recently, a Google engineer Blake Lemoine was put on leave after saying the company’s AI chatbot has become sentient. In an article…Jun 27, 2022Jun 27, 2022
In search of AniccaIf you’ve been reading about Buddhism, no doubt you’ve heard about anicca.Jun 11, 2022Jun 11, 2022
Just be yourselfThere is a story about the centipede, the snake and the wind that envy one another for their inborn characteristics.Mar 4, 2022Mar 4, 2022
At fifteen I set my heart on learningThe Analects of Confucius is an anthology of brief passages that present the words of Confucius and his disciples, describe Confucius as a…Feb 23, 2022Feb 23, 2022
What is Zen?If you’re interested in mindfulness, you’ve probably heard of the Zen practice. And if you take the effort to try to grasp it, you’ll…Feb 22, 2022Feb 22, 2022
Wealth creation — Records of the HistorianAround 100 BC, Ssu-ma Ch’ien wrote in Records of the Historian how individuals who act in their own self-interest are the driving force…Feb 21, 2022Feb 21, 2022
On the value of work— Economics as if people matteredE.F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful is first economics book I read in college before taking Macro Economics 101. It is a riveting and…Feb 20, 2022Feb 20, 2022
A lazy FridayThe day started slowly. Friday, it seems, the day people thank God. It’s TGIF.Feb 19, 2022Feb 19, 2022
The hubris of ZuckerbergOn Friday, May 18, 2012, Facebook IPO’d with a market capitalization of over $104 billion — the biggest IPO in technology and in Internet…Feb 17, 2022Feb 17, 2022
Clumsy on the insideWhen in the course of your search for excellence, you realized that it’s something you never could achieve. You then ask the next obvious…Feb 16, 2022Feb 16, 2022
