I’m one week into doing this daily blog – what do I think of it so far?
Beyond the technical, learning-something-new element of actually starting a blog (which was really very easy with WordPress) I have found it enrichi Continue reading
Benefit scroungers and the ruling elite – fictions that endanger democracy
A whole swathe of the UK population are demonised as lazy benefit scroungers who can’t be bothered getting a job and instead bleed the country dry claiming huge amounts of money and grabbing free food; this quite obviously isn’t the case. Even if a Continue reading
The Tao of Lifting Weights – How Weight-Training Can Benefit More Than Just Your Body and Where to Start
A few years ago I could never have foreseen writing anything on this topic (or writing at all but that’s a different story). I looked like this… Continue reading
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Fahrenheit 451 – How We’re Burning Our Own Books and How to Stop it
One of the books which had the greatest effect on me in my teens was Fahrenheit 451 and I still recommend everyone read it (along with Clockwork Orange, Brave New World, 1984 and Animal Farm). In some ways Fahrenheit 451 seems to have the greatest relevance to our time.
The prediction of a world where we are controlled by vacuous media and books are burned to deny people the knowledge required to question authority seems to parallel our click bait and reality TV dominated world.
However, in the most fundamental way I would argue that Fahrenheit 451 got things wrong. Continue reading
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A Lesson from Homer Simpson – How Quitting Facebook Can Improve Your Life
A quote from Homer Simpson has always stuck in my head
“…every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain..”
Neuroscientists would probably have something to say about the scientific validity of that statement in terms of learning and memory but in the short term, when we think about mental capacity and attention, I think there is something important in there.
I’ll cut to the chase, I recently deleted Facebook from my phone and it has improved my life. Continue reading
From Sniffles to Politics – The Problem of Intolerence and How we Can Avoid it
At this time of year I am constantly reminded of my intolerance of other people. When I’m on a train or a plane other peoples’ sniffles can cause a disproportionate level of anger to well up in me. It defies logic, they can’t help Continue reading
First Post!
So, my first ever blog post (I wonder how many blogs start with exactly those words)…..
I’m starting this primarily as a mental exercise on the recommendation (not personal) of Seth Godin. Continue reading
Stranger Here Myself 