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Needles, Noise and Signals.
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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...

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The Leviathan and the Whale: How Blocs Are Our Last, Best (and Probably Failing) Hope Against Corporate Overlords
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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.

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I’m going for another walk.

As you might know - I like to walk. So on the 10th of September I’ll be heading to Santander in beautiful Cantabria, Spain to complete the walk I started in June 2016.  The Camino Del Norte st...

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On Suicide.

Might helping people who consider suicide, to feel less trapped and more in control, be helpful to managing suicidal thoughts?

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Say your wishes out loud.

In Spain, we call New Year's Eve night - 'noche vieja', and as the night ebbs away, leaving seconds left of the year that was - you are meant to 'quickly' eat a grape for every second of the last 12 s...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Bullies and Bluebells

I was recently in a dialogue with a client and the conversation turned to "Evil Scrum" and some previous negative experiences that some people had experienced. They imposed velocity targets and demand...

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Lessons from a #LinkyBrains event no one else came to

The LinkyBrains movement is purely accidental. It has gained and is gaining momentum primarily through small groups of people meeting to have coffee, some lunch or just a walk. What brings them togeth...