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Category: Knowledge & Skills

Read Well Sewn’s essays and profiles on learning, history, philosophy, perseverance and practical skills. Explore ideas about judgment, curiosity and personal growth, alongside conversations with people who practice their craft.

Health & Wellbeing

Being Honest With Ourselves: Admitting What We Don’t Know

By Bryan Ergle “I don’t know.” When did that simple phrase become so difficult for people to say, so completely banished from day-to-day conversation? To utter that phrase now, you would think that you were committing a capital offense or admitting guilt to some grievous crime before a jury of your peers. In the internet

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History

Nuance is not a Vice

By Bryan Ergle Nuance, in the modern era, seems to have become an evil buzzword, something that may get you banned from a popular club or shunned at a weekend get together. It is verboten in political and business speech, and increasingly often, in day-to-day chit chat. But it should not be so – because

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