Writing
Engaging Compassion
8 September 2025
Compassionate Software, a Working List
Nine projects, slowly gathered, where compassion is treated as a design problem rather than a marketing claim.
14 July 2021
Four Words for Compassion
Karuṇā, mettā, muditā, upekṣā: the words English collapses into compassion, and the distinctions they keep apart.
9 March 2018
After the Charter
Louisville signed the Charter for Compassion in 2011. A note on the programmes that followed.
10 December 2016
Merton and the Dalai Lama
Three conversations in Dharamsala in 1968, a month before Merton's death, and what the Dalai Lama carried forward of them.
22 April 2015
The Action and the Agent
A question from the Yum Center audience in 2013 about the Boston bombings, and the distinction the Dalai Lama drew in his answer.