Buddhism

From the Archives: What’s the Most Important Lesson You Learned from a Teacher?

Posted November 2, 2015 by Steve Silberman in Art, Autism, Books, Buddhism, Education, Journalism, Media, Poetry, Science, Science Writing, Women, Writers

To mark Steve Silberman’s winning of the 2015 Samuel Johnson book prize, UK’s top prize for non-fiction and the first science book to be so honored, we’re reposting Silberman’s 2011 NeuroTribes blog post honoring educators. In this post, he asks

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What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really?

Posted October 26, 2015 by Steve Silberman in Art, Books, Buddhism, Cancer, Culture, History, Media, Mindfulness, Personal computing, Psychedelics, Technology

[Originally posted on NeuroTribes on Oct 28, 2011] One reason I was looking forward to reading Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs was my hope that, as a sharp-eyed reporter, Isaacson would probe to

Practical Tips on Writing a Book from 23 Brilliant Authors

Posted June 2, 2011 by Steve Silberman in Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Books, Buddhism, E-books, History, Journalism, Media, Mindfulness, Neurodiversity, Poetry, Science, Science Writing, Social networks, Technology, Writers

I love books. My late father Donald, who taught Wordsworth and Melville to inner-city kids for decades, used to read Ulysses to me while he carried me on his shoulders. Perhaps it was inevitable that