Archive

2026

June 2026

Share your light


30

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


23

Beyond latent vulnerabilities


05

May 2026

Climate change misinformation


12

Be careful what you put in a work email


11

"Sovereign omnicompetent" we're not


08

April 2026

New York wealth tax


24

March 2026

Why I blog


30

Helicopter parenting and estrangement


18

February 2026

Starmer on Mandelson


04

Father-daughter chasm


04

Are migrants happier?


02

January 2026

Text still rules


30

Boyfriends and YouTube


17

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2025

December 2025

Horseshoe theory in politics


17

Vocational awe


08

More on AI triggered psychosis


05

On running


02

LLeMmings


01

November 2025

AI content is boring


28

Just use your phone


19

AI and psychosis


17

Weightloss jab scam


13

Audition by Katie Kitamura


12

David Szalay wins the Booker prize


11

Flesh by David Szalay


08

Zo done did it!


06

The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura


05

Self-mastery matters


04

Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère


02

Why hand code?


01

October 2025

Why blog?


31

Till AI do us part


29

AI gains and losses


27

Screens and mental clutter


26

Collate your work


25

Just ship it


24

Surviving an overdose


20

On Zohran Mamdani


14

Adichie on writer's block


04

September 2025

Yield not to bullying


23

Re-reading Hannah Arendt


20

Rewilding your attention


18

Books as intellectual friends


15

Who killed truth?


10

Addiction and environment


05

Some reflections on aging


01

July 2025

The purpose of art


15

June 2025

The might of Huawei


10

On MrBeast


03

A man on Mounjaro


02

March 2025

Let it go


26

Imperial Boomerang effect


25

February 2025

Homo sum


08

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2024

November 2024

The power of community


19

It’s in the telling


18

Keep at it


17

The challenge of decolonising the mind


16

Why think in public?


15

Speaking for earth


14

Hyperlinks please


13

Co-author of the Madwoman in the Attic dies


12

Defend institutons


11

Prepare, prepare and prepare again


10

How to start personal blogging


09

Voice the unsaid thing


08

Read and write like your life depends on it


07

In a tyrannical regime, professional ethics matter more


06

Resilient vs divisive power


05

On Arthur C. Clarke


04

10 Supportive behaviours to help with writing


03

Some lessons from learning to touch type as an adult


02

Let your ideas mature


01

October 2024

Seeing one’s father anew


31

Second gen ultra-rich and the Peter Pan Syndrome


30

The merits of a shitty blog


29

Pause, breath, continue


28

Toxic bedfellows


27

Why I failed at my previous blogging attempts


26

When the fear sets in


25

Acknowledgements


24

8 reasons why I'm blogging daily


23

Let us begin


22

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2022

November 2022

Notes from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's BBC Reith Lecture


30

Ink by Olivia Douglass


24

Relationships, relationships, relationships


22

An ode to pull-ups


20

Crime excellence


19

Why mediocrity persists


18

Persuasion tactics


16

You get what you expect


15

Boomer zero


14

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2017

September 2017

Sec 28: 50 years later


12

Obsession by Clarice Lispector


05

August 2017

Man, heal thy wounds


24

Dare to thrive


29

April 2017

Cultivating letters and swimming


04

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2015

April 2015

Free yourself: think


04

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