THE JOURNAL.
SELECTED WRITING
Needles, Noise and Signals.
When I was a kid, my Mum always said 'learn to cook, people always need to eat'. This is wisdom. What is also wisdom is that, just as people need to eat, they also like to have sex. So that is a...
The Leviathan and the Whale: How Blocs Are Our Last, Best (and Probably Failing) Hope Against Corporate Overlords
Forget the squabbling nations; the real power play is between the 'blocs' – those lumbering political cliques – and the 'whales' – the mega-corporations that treat us like digital plankton. We’re being squeezed, folks. Either you’re in a gang (a bloc), or you're lunch (for a whale). The problem? Blocs are bureaucratic dinosaurs, and whales are fast, ruthless, and largely unaccountable. So, yeah, good luck with that whole freedom thing.
I’m going for another walk.
On Suicide.
Say your wishes out loud.
There is no 'We the people'
There is a time between waking and rising. I find that time to be particularly full of insights and reflections. Today - I have been pondering this 'we, the people' concept that is often used to ju...
Mike's theory of arcs and angles
One goal, which path would you take? Imagine you had a goal - perhaps to lose weight or to learn a skill, or even to build some capacity/capability as a person, team, company or country. Lets c...
I have people
I have people who instantly make me smile. Others who, as the interactions proceed, get me really irritated. I have people who help me slow down and think deeply, questioning with respect and le...
I'm loving: PomodoneApp
I'm terrible at focusing and single-flow discipline, so I tend to practice the Pomodoro technique - which is about enforced habit of working for short, concentrated bursts, taking a short breaks and l...