It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
It’s all Greek to me
c/o an unnamed genius… I think having family (albeit distant relations) in Greece helps me understand the situation from a humanitarian perspective, but I also know there are going to be some severe implications for…
B Movie – Gil Scott Heron
You don’t need to be in no hurry. You ain’t never really got to worry. And you don’t need to check on how you feel. Just keep repeating that none of this is real. And…
Blockchain Technology. Everything is different now.
I’ve been looking around for an article that explains what the hell blockchain technology is all about in layman terms i.e. from a non-tech pov. I couldn’t seem to find one that started with basic principles,…
Read more of Blockchain Technology. Everything is different now.
Nothing is for free. Nothing.
Sign-up for a free trial, no strings attached. Get free access to all the music you like, whenever you like. Search for anything on the internet and find what you’re looking; free. Really? How is…
If you want to be successful…
…get yourself a mentor. We’re not just talking about someone who can provide neutral third party advice and act as a sounding board for your ideas. Although this can be a critical part of the…
Jefferson’s 10 rules for a good life.
1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you…
24 Life Lessons
In Paul Cronin’s documented interviews with Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed, Herzog offers some advice, (mainly to students of the art of film-making) but his advice applies to all of us: Always take the initiative.…
Silly Season
It’s that time of year again, the silly season! I’m not feeling the usual hysteria though. Perhaps we’ve all run out of money? Maybe, we’ve began to see through the illusion of scarcity? Or is it that…
7 practical tips of persistence
Tip #1: Start small One thing at a time, ‘Φασούλι φασούλι γεμίζει το σάκούλι’. Affect change where you can, immediately, progressively, and iteratively – this stuff is easy if all you need to worry about is making a change to…
My story of persistence: Part #6
I know this story has been dragging on for some time so I’m going to try and wrap it up as quickly as I can, maybe even in this post…let’s see how we go…thanks for…
My story of persistence: Part #5
As you do when looking for work, especially when you know its time to move on, you look for anything and everything that looks remotely interesting. You don’t really put all your eggs in one…
My story of persistence: Part #4
There is something very reassuring about mail. I reckon it’s a key indicator of a modern, functioning civilisation (along with safe and efficient garbage disposal but that’s a story for another day). Almost without exception…
My story of persistence: Part #3
There are some professional service vocations that require practitioners to maintain a certain level of competence by obtaining what’s called continuing professional development points. The goal is 10 points in a 12 month period. You…
My story of persistence: Part #2
So the job situation was by no means dire. I had a good boss who understood me and how I worked. The pay was satisfactory for my level of qualifications at the time and given…
My story of persistence: Part #1
About three years ago, I started on a journey that would take me to a destination that I had decided I needed to reach. I’m making some head way and I want to share my story with you.…
Visual refresh
It’s been over a year now since I embarked on this blogging journey and at the time I was really only learning about the power we all have to communicate with written word via the…
It’s all about Valume
Yesterday, I had the privilege of hearing Adrian Fittolani introduce me to the concept of valume. Now there is no way I will be able to convey the message with anywhere near as much heart…
Disruptive Thinking
#EpicCollaboration
Firstly I want to thank everyone involved at #EpicCollaboration. I had the pleasure of attending a strategy session the other night with a group of honest, intelligent, compassionate, creative and committed collaborators. I appreciate you…
With intention
Know real Now matters Open honest Without hesitation Live deliberately Extend boundaries Do what matters Grow and contribute Eclecticism
I’ve been launching…
Firstly there’s Knowledge Work: honest, friendly and highly beneficial mentoring for young professionals. Then there’s the launch of something that is truly beyond words. Unequivocally remarkable. Those of you who know me know what I’m talking about…for those…
Keep on searching
To find what we’re looking for sometimes we need to go places that no one has before. We are unique. No one has been or will be you, ever! And so to rely on others…
Taking stock
I’ve been writing this blog for almost a year now since I decided to make the switch. Every now and then I look back at some of the things I’ve written…sometimes I can’t even remember ever writing…
Noise
Wherever we turn, no matter what we’re doing, we have to deal with noise. Even in complete silence, we filter cognitive noise. This noise is audible and visual too. Our lives are being bombarded with noise. Useless and utter crap.…
Keep on…
Keep on running. Keep on learning. Keep on exploring. Keep on giving. Keep on receiving. Keep on wondering. Keep on asking. Keep on trying. Keep on living. That is the meaning of life. Keep on…
Purpose
When you know what you want, when you know where you are going, you begin to appreciate a purpose. If you’re in doubt about what you want, if you’re questioning the direction you’re heading, you will…
Why?
There is nothing and no one waiting for you. Your life is yours and lived only once. Why do we strive for distraction? Time in space is all we have. Attempting to avoid reality. The…
The fox and the grapes
One hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the thing…
Options
Our brains are a muscle that can create an infinite number of connections between two points. These connections give us options. The more connections we create the more options we will have. The computing power…
Letters of Note
The internet is a sharing tool. The inspiration and creativity found is that of fellow human beings. Occasionally you come across a truly inspirational collection of information that warrants our attention. Here is one site…
Learning from strangers
All our lives we are taught by strangers. We are told to listen, respect and learn from their teachings. It’s been a long since teaches actually taught us something worth learning though and that’s the…
Greatness
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo
Backing up
When backing up large amounts of data and waiting an extraordinary amount of time for these 1s and 0s to get from here to there, it reaches a point of no return when you aren’t…
Public Domain Dedication
“Public Domain Dedication” sounds like the type of thing you do when you’re about to ask your life-long partner to marry you in front of tens of thousands of people at a New York Yankees…
Shady
There are so many shady people out there it’s easy to forget that honest and genuine people exist. The shadiness isn’t always obvious. It’s not as if these people are necessarily rude or obnoxious or…
Creatively connected
We live in a connected community. Linguistic and geographical boundaries exist no longer. Lets us creatively.collaborate; creatively.communicate; creatively.connect with creatively.committed and creatively.compassionate individuals. A better world will evolve as we move beyond solving problems and begin to…
Making time
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton I always try putting in place a few measures to ensure I get exposure to challenging and confronting…
Meandering Mondays XIII
Hi everyone, I missed you all! You may think that I’ve been on holidays meandering about except exactly the opposite is true. But more about that another day. Today is Monday. Today we meander albeit…
Working with your hands
In this day and age intellectual property rules but there’s something to be said about working with your hands. Going to university, getting a degree and landing that sweet desk job is the aspiration of…
The whole is great
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Aristotle It’s true also that each part is painstakingly engineered and crafted to serve its own purpose. We are each individually capable of anything but…
The old becomes new again
Everything is cyclical…everything. We often loose sight of the bigger picture so its worth recognising and acknowledging the circular nature of our existence. Although cliched to the hill, ‘what comes around goes around’ and ‘what goes up…
The journey continues
As we all see the end of another year that our Gregorian calendars number 2013, what better time to reflect and celebrate the year that was. I sincerely hope that those reading this have had…
‘Tis the season to be wary…
…of everything. The food will make you fat. The spending will make you poor. The small talk will be painful. The crowds will be in your way. The heat will make sweat. The cold will…
Meandering Mondays XII
After somewhat of a hiatus we’re back and travelling to a small Victorian outpost called Malmsbury for this Monday’s meander. Malmsbury There isn’t that much to say about this place but that’s the point. It…
Community
What does community mean? How do we define who is in our community and who isn’t? Geographical parameters work…well sort of…but what about online communities? Do online communities exist by virtue of a username and…
Illusion of scarcity
Our consumerist existence operates on the concept of scarcity. We are made to believe that the things we have become obsolete, that the sales on offer are for a limited time, that the goods we…
Whether
Not the heat or the cold or anything meteorological but the choice we make in our minds about whether to do or think in a particular way. Whether you think you can, or you think…
Artistic expression
Some of us write. We all probably photograph. Drawing was something we did as kids [at least for most of us]. By writing, photographing and drawing we communicate to those who care to notice. Some…
Entertainment
It’s a wonderful thing: To entertain. To be entertained. To laugh. To make others laugh. It’s a skill that some people possess naturally. Others work hard at it and pull it off. Entertainment can take so…