Delight 2014 – Reflections Part Four – Empathy

This week features a series of posts endeavoring to draw themes from the Delight Conference 2014 in Portland, as well as Design Week Portland. I shall each day post some thoughts collected in categories of creativity, curiosity, meaning, community, and empathy....

Revisiting To Kill a Mockingbird

I remember reading Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and being struck by the moral lesson that we should endeavor to see life from the perspective of other people. Atticus Finch advised his daughter, Scout, that, “You never really understand a person until you...

Can Conversation Make You More Ethical?

Could conversation (as I define it here) have prevented the shamefully absurd mutterings of natterers like Michele Bachmann or nipped in the bud the unethical actions of bankers in JP Morgan’s massive gambles, HSBC’s money laundering or Barclays...