5: In Search of Dharma
How a Dharma Gets Under Your Skin
A dharma feels like truth because it was grooved into gut, habit and brain wiring, below the reach of the self that could doubt it.
Gary Dean
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6: In Search of Dharma
When Dharmas Go Wrong
Every strength of a dharma has a dark twin: the fence that unites also excludes, the authority that frees also rules. No dharma escapes its own failures.
Oxytocin and Human Tribalism
Oxytocin isn't the 'love hormone' fuelling tribal hatred—evidence shows it strengthens in-group bonds far more reliably than out-group hostility.
Intergenerational Communication at Okusi Associates
A Case Study of Collaboration Across Departments Between Gen Y and Gen Z
How Gen Y and Gen Z employees at Okusi Associates in Jakarta communicate and collaborate across departments, per this qualitative case study.
Where is my compassion?
Reflections 14 years after the Asian Tsunami
A journalist on compassion fatigue after Indonesia's 2004 tsunami and years of disasters—empathy, exhaustion and self-preservation.
Some thoughts surrounding the Milgram Experiment
Milgram's obedience experiment examined: collective morality, war crimes, and how individual freedom clashes with bureaucratic authority.
