One of my readers has e-mailed me to ask for “a succinct understanding” of why I wrote LEAP! before he decides whether to cork over $29 and change for the whole 243-page enchilada.
I thank him for his interest and his inquiry, but it ain’t going to happen. The “pithy” part, that is. Too much went [...]

In my new book, LEAP!, I talk in Chapter 7 about keeping close watch on the “adjacent possible.” The term and the idea are borrowed from Stuart Kauffman, the American complex systems researcher.
Kauffman’s idea is that (in LEAP! terms) it is easier to make the LEAP! successfully if your surroundings are ready for it (and [...]

While goofing off on the Internet—and wondering what ever happened to Sunday strolls—I chanced across one of those Puppy Dog sales come-ons for an e-book. (Puppy Dog come-ons were invented or at least popularized by car salespeople who are forever begging you to take their shiny model home and drive it for the weekend, knowing [...]

I’m prepared to argue that ethics evolve—and are evolving. The reason, of course, is that how we think about human nature and about ethics is evolving.
I’ll admit that this notion is off-putting to more than a few philosophers, most notably those who seem to think, or so it appears to me, that philosophical and ethical [...]