Empathy, alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.” Eric Hoffer
The problem with mass movements is that they often breed a near religious devotion and fervor in their leaders and followers.
The resulting sense of messianic purpose breeds a corresponding lack of compassion, empathy and even hatred toward others who do not agree with them, or who they blame for the ills of the world.
by Padre Steve
Where empathic design improves sitesDeveloped in the 90s, empathic design has become the first step in the design thinking process for many. In it, a designer will study customer feelings and perceptions to determine which ideas lead to the best user-c…
Dev Bootcamp is an intense 9-week bootcamp to train software engineers. 90% placement rate. Located in San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL I’m Karim Bishay, Head of Admissions for Dev Bootcamp. We get asked a lot about our teaching philosophy and w…
A few weeks ago, I received an brief e-mail from Seung Chan Lim, otherwise known as Slim. He had come across my DiaPraxis website (and possibly, my paper on Empathy and Collaborative Meaning-Making) and wanted to know about upcoming work…
Jerry Schuitema But it is not as simple as that either. Latest research conducted by Dutch neuroscientists (see BBC News report here) shows that while psychopaths do not spontaneously and instinctively respond empathetically to the emotions and di…
