THE JOURNAL.
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Wake Up: AI Is Coming For Your Job, And No One's Ready
AI is here, and it's coming for your job sooner than you think. Stop sleepwalking through the biggest labor crisis humanity has ever faced and prepare for the inevitable economic upheaval.
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
I’m going for another walk.
On Suicide.
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...
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...