Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I’d like to start this post by expressing my gratitude for the fact that bridge is one of the safer sports out there. Bridge doesn’t require the act of mounting a horse and grabbing a stick. There’s no need for running or kicking in bridge, and it won’t throw out my back (although most other…

The whole thing started during a late-night research session for bridge column ideas and links. I read a Google search result from Al Levy’s website. The gist of it was artificial bids from a lesson. I came, I saw and I promptly forgot the details of the search result within a few minutes. (No, I…

Bridge strategy is about more than bids, plays and card decks. Sometimes a person can draw from several different sources to improve their in-game strategy – and these sources don’t have to come from the bridge world. Strategy can come from the world of business, from a piece of good fiction, from an inspirational quote…