Curiosity, pen, and paper…

While browsing through the options for Tilburg University’s Liberal Arts and Sciences program, I came across a course on ‘Evil’ with the following recommended prerequisites: ‘Curiosity, pen, and paper’.

In today’s dumbed-down AI-slop-heavy world, it’s a refreshingly old-school, analogue set. One that underlines the enduring value of thinking and writing by hand, or indeed writing as thinking by hand.

Back in its earliest days, Google’s motto was ‘Don’t be evil’. They’ve long since stepped back from this call to good, preferring instead the more mundane ‘Do the right thing’. Bearing in mind this retreat and inspired by the Liberal Arts and Sciences folk at Tilburg University, here’s a rallying cry for us all: ‘Be curious. Put pen to paper. Think, write and make a better future.’