June 13th 2025 Physical helplessness sold as innovation Physical helplessness sold as innovation. Outsourcing our thinking, creativity, and actions to the digital invisible—the chatbot—comes at a cost few consider. Touch, experiences in nature, cooking food, building fires, fixing things – lost in the addiction to the machine. Physical helplessness sold as innovation. And with it, all the other losses that come with a move from the physical world to the invisible: the ability to have genuine...

June 12th 2025 Moving into irrelevance Moving into irrelevance When I was 23 years old, I spent five months travelling around the United States, visiting about 48 states. As an Aussie, I had been seduced by the allure of the United States, as portrayed in movies and the news. Social media and smartphones were twenty or more years away and far from most people’s imagination. On my first day, fresh out of University, I visited a shopping mall in Orange County, California. I had the overwhelming...

January 11th 2025 To change the future we need to change who we listen to To change the future we need to change who we listen to It is the old adage. Same thinking, same result. Listen to the same people, more of the same. Change is incremental at best. We need transformation. I was listening to one of my favourite podcasts this week, and the host was discussing the release of a new book, praising it highly. It was written by four men who spend their days in academia. It is probably...