‘Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass’ Michel de Montaigne, ‘De l’experience,’ 1580-88 I recently listened to the audiobooks by Terry Pratchett. The Colour of Magic, Light Fanastic, Small Gods and Pyramids. I’ve never been interested in this sort of fiction before. What tickled me the most […]
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A Bad Birdwatcher and my art
Just started listening to the audiobook A Bad Birdwatchers Companion, By Simon Barnes. Delighted is how I felt listening to it. It helped me see birds in a new light. Brought them to life in a way I never thought of before. Normally I ignore birds just like everyone else. Yet this writer and birdwatcher […]
The shift from consumption to production
In my search for a life worth living I can point to a significant change in how I live. Before I was almost exclusively a consumer. I bought and used things which kept my interest and distracted me from what was important in my life. Games, TV etc. Yet the past three years have been […]
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Where everybody knows your name
That’s what you get when you walk into the Cheers bar in Boston. The massively popular TV series I grew up with in the 80s and 90s. It’s such a desirable place to be, where you know all the people around you, they are your social circle. In our modern world of online communication having […]
Is life to easy? Comfort and Anti-fragile
‘What does not kill me, makes me stronger’. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888 Our lives are easy in many ways. Most of us are not starving, we have a roof over our heads, water, clothes, entertainments, and more. We have defeated numerous threats like diseases, starvation, and lawlessness. The standards of living have […]
The Map is not the territory
We often get angry when things don’t go our way or we find ourselves lost because the world confuses us. But what’s really going on here? Our lives are guided by expectations and by our knowledge. We want the plans that we made to come to fruition. The ‘best laid plans of mice and men […]
