Tagged: Philosophy

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Book: Free Thought and Official Propaganda

Delivered as a speech as part of Conway Memorial Lectures at South Place Institute on 24 March 1922. This essay by Bertrand Russell a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic is very relevant even today. In this essay/speech Russel talks about the challenges for free-thought and free-speech in the context of raising...

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Obsessed with Einstein

For a long time I was scared to read Einstein. Most of my physics reading was Richard Feynman’s essays. I think its more to do with his life and character than the physics itself. If I remember properly I read A Brief History of Time when I was in college. That’s the closest...

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Our Home is Our Utopia.

I read Anything You Want years back. It’s a small book about building a company. It’s so small that you can probably complete it two hours. There are a couple of quotes from that have stayed with me since then. When you make a company, you make a utopia. It’s where you design...