The Amoeba and the Mathematician
 
            
            By over-specializing, professionals have unwittingly shrunk their job duties to fit inside a machine’s scope of practice.
 
            
            By over-specializing, professionals have unwittingly shrunk their job duties to fit inside a machine’s scope of practice.
 
            For Simone Weil, attention was akin to prayer.
 
            
            We get nowhere near knowing, much less loving, another person through impersonal means.
 
            
            Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
 
            
            The strike zone is not reducible to the simple rectangle displayed on TV broadcasts.
 
            Six centuries after Gutenberg, the Internet has had a malignant effect on the public mind.