March 10th 2026 The false economy of measurement The false economy of measurement What we love to measure now. In business How much profit we make, our costs, efficiency, performance, ROI, sales. In life How much money we make, how heavy we are, how much stuff we have, how young we look, how we compare with Jill and Bob and Paul and Sue. How would life be if we measured things like.. Has any child gone hungry tonight? Has any child been sold as a sex slave? How many weapons did we NOT make,...
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March 17th 2026 Bombshell Bombshell An absolute bombshell Breaking news This is a bombshell revelation A bombshell. The whiplash of being bombarded with the next corruption. The next cruelty. The next lie and lie and lie and lie. And lie. Until it is impossible to believe anyone we elected. The election itself. The system. Built on a platform that serves the designers. Turning those of us fortunate enough not to be bombed, starved, exploited, demeaned and sanctioned, into stunned, exhausted,...
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March 16th 2026 In our apprenticeship we stay young and vital In our apprenticeship we stay young and vital From Old French, apprendre- to learn, apprenticing as an act of reverence to life and our journey across its unexpected contours evokes much-needed humility. In medieval times, all craftspeople started as apprentices, bound to a master for at least seven years. After this time, they became journeyman, able to charge their own fee, still far from mastery. When we hold this context for...
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March 13th 2026 More beautiful for having been broken More beautiful for having been broken A long time ago, a very important Shogun in Japan was given a beautiful pottery bowl as a gift. But in the passing from giver to receiver, the bowl fell to the floor and broke into pieces. The Shogun was a wise man, and instead of seeing a broken bowl, he asked for it to be repaired with gold. The finished product was more beautiful than the original. Kintsukuroi, or golden repair, is a metaphor for...
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March 12th 2026 Expected Exploitation Expected Exploitation Turns out the conspiracy theory of a global elite child sex trafficking ring was true. But of course. Empire demands women and children, boys and girls, be served as the dish of seduction to facilitate deals, wealth accumulation and power for as long as humans have walked the earth. Objects of exploitation. Add to this slavery of the lower castes and people of colour. Nothing new here. Yet the shocking part is that the knowledge and...
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March 11th 2026 Essential Pausing Essential Pausing The greatest creativity comes from the in-between. The not doing, not trying, not working space. Wrestling with a problem is exactly that. Wrestling with a problem. It is only when we let it go that the answer comes. The difficulty is found in the willingness to let go. When every fibre of our being says keep working it. Keep holding tight. The walk around the lake, the baking of a cake, the attention to any form of beauty, this is where we...
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March 10th 2026 Minab Minab We need to burn this place into our brains. Remember. Remember. As the decades pass. Minab. For if we do not, we must acknowledge we have lost our humanity against a backdrop of such endless horror that we have become numb. The single biggest massacre by the USA since My Lai. Perhaps, perhaps, this massacre was the result of an AI hallucination. The very same tool we rush to deploy to write better copy. The same tool that was sharpened by Israel against...
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March 9th 2026 I wonder if we will ever learn I wonder if we will ever learn I wonder how you restart after nearly a month? Like starting at any point. You begin. Over the last month, I have slept, lived from minute to minute. Explored Mexico. Driven through a Mexican cartel burning car road block. Witnessed the world go fear crazy over the incidents in Mexico while we, tourists on the ground, never had a moment of fear. Don’t take the news seriously. And do travel to Mexico. It is safer than...
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February 6th 2026 Into the arms of surrender Into the arms of surrender You are awake at 12.53 am. 12.54 am…2.23 am… Life is just not playing your tune. The heavens and all the gods seem to have packed up and left the building. You toss and turn. “Why oh why?” you beseech to the silent heavens. Of course, there is no answer. This is the desert. This is the mouth full of sand, and the scorching heat and a yearning for water. Your soul craves, craves water. Cool. Quenching. But there is no...
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