Wise Guys
We all get older; not everyone gets wiser. A wise person has learned: they make fewer of certain kinds of mistake – in particular the… Read More »Wise Guys
ageing
41; or, StairMaster
1) If you run on the stairs, you will (eventually) fall over. 2) Running – leaping! – on the stairs makes it less likely that… Read More »41; or, StairMaster
Plato on ageing well
I love this little riff from the start of Plato’s fascinating-but-politically-iffy* Republic: We went with Polemarchus to his house; and there we found his brothers… Read More »Plato on ageing well
No finish line (2)
“No finish line” applies to most of our work too. There will be tasks to tick off and projects that we complete, but most of… Read More »No finish line (2)