…the stakes of being fooled again are higher than ever… Firstly, I will justify that subtitle. Hom. Sap. is in, I assert, a lot of trouble. Lots of statistics, lots of warnings and mostly for us in the minority world (ie. ‘Western’ culture), the shit and the fan have yet to meet with the impact […]

One of the things I internalized early on my path into adulthood was that things tend to become more significant as you grow older. The right career, studing, building a resume, finding a partner, buying a home… Whilst I was doing all that I was very fortunate in my late teens and early 20s to […]

Over the last few days I, like many others, have been drawn in to the analysis of ‘what went wrong’ with the Titan submersible, diving on the Titanic when it suffered a catastrophic implosion at depth, instantly killing all on board. My deepest sympathies are with their families after this terrible tragedy. Sidebar this for […]

[illustration courtesy of Dall.E (ChatGPT) in response to the prompt ‘Generate a futuristic image to illustrate a blog post on the possibility of machine sentience.’] In my formative years, I remember a movie that imprinted on me one view of what computers were – one that was at least 50 years ahead of its time. […]

Beliefs and patterns of behaviour are two sides of the same coin in this world as I see it. Belief inspires action, which makes the belief more real (after all, why would you do this thing if you did not believe it was the ‘right’ thing to do?) The two feed into and off of […]

In working with clients – and myself, the work is so often in unpacking the stories I have created (let’s focus on me) that shape how I act and show up in the world by default. One story I have been working on for what seems like a very long time is around money. Those […]

playing politics with Climate Chaos is unlikely to end well… In recent news; the 6th IPCC Synthesis Report basically states that we are in big trouble and there is a narrow window in which action can be effective. And this is the science that all the signatory governments agree on – which is not at […]

#codinghumans – another thread of writing… Managing any effort to bring something new into the world is challenging. Even a baby being born has a vast uncertainty around it, yet millions of years of evolution has made the underlying process pretty reliable albeit uniquely weird, messy, scary and wonderful… What do I know having been […]

As well as being a Coach – I spend a great deal of my time writing software. A few years ago I was in a conflict around these two careers. I have spent 30+ years in the Engineering game and had a lot of fun and success. In 2013 I spent a year training as […]

Out beyond right and wrong, there is a field. I will meet you there… Rumi In the last blog post I wrote, I played with the idea of our maps of reality and how do we know they are correct – and what happens if we allow ourselves to change them. Buckle up. The image […]