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...

June 10th 2025 Intuition in a vacuum is bad feedback Intuition in a vacuum is bad feedback Our intuition is similar to AI. Applied Statistics, or AI, can only take responses to questions from a closed container, a black box. What you put in the box determines the response. Put in Western thinking, which, if we are honest, is white male thinking, and any question answered will be tainted with more of the same. Sigh. Not what humanity needs right now. Our intuition comes from what we feed our...