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A quick stumble down the rabbit hole of the usefulness of empathy:

• Paul Bloom on the limitations of empathy as moral guidance via The New Yorker. Read this one if you only have time to read one (long) article
• Paul Bloom again via Boston Review, the responses by other people are interesting. His opening piece includes more examples than his piece in the New Yorker, but I feel his thesis is less clear here.
• Harvard Business Review with a more practical view on the limits of empathy.

Best part of not being in school is all the free time to read into new topics.