Empathy day
I’m feeling sad today, not for myself, but for a friend who suffered a serious hit professionally, in a costly and humiliating way. My friend is a very good person and very smart person, but he ended up going down the wrong path because he fell in love with a position that functioned well in an intellectual vacuum but that failed to pass the real world test. I mention it here both because I don’t feel like blogging right now (I’m really sad for him) and because it is a reminder to all of us that we cannot fall so in love with our theories that we fail to take a reality check now and then.
