Several months ago I knocked a bottle of water straight onto my phone, dumping liquid into its electronic heart and causing it a cardiac arrest. Whilst it was not completely unusable (I could answer calls) it turned my Samsung from a Smartphone to a Dumbphone, causing me to try surviving phoneless. In the modern era this is about as debilitating as losing an arm (or perhaps a more pertinent metaphor would be a neural network).…
I tweeted a few days ago that if you are better today than this time last year, 2019 was a good year. The responses I got – both in comments and retweets overwhelmingly told me that many of my followers had. This is great news and I’m pleased others had the same experience as me; 2019 has easily been my most successful year to date. I set myself three main – although purposefully vague –…
In the past, when I was an ardent atheist, I regularly uttered the phrase ‘I believe in the power of The Universe.’ I look back on this now with new eyes and realise this declaration is an act of faith. Yet if you had asked me “do you believe in a ‘higher power?’” I would have scoffed at such foolishness. This is a pretty common pattern of thinking in modern life, yet it is entirely…
Setting The Scene Today I’m gonna do something a little bit different. I want to take you down memory lane to one of the most formative parts of my life (so far). We’re going to walk back in time to when I was locked in a tunnel for 12 hours a day. But first, some background. Several years ago my fiancée and I were stuck in a bit of a predicament. I was unable to…
So I’m trying to keep up my string of writing. I’ve been pretty creatively charged lately and have had more free time than usual at work which has allowed me to smash out some pieces. The metrics are pretty good (by my standards), so hopefully you’ve been enjoying them. But now I have free time and I’m at a loss for what to talk about – as it stands. So, I have decided to just…
Coming Home I recently went back to England for a period of two weeks. It had been a year and a half since my last visit and – honestly – I had a wonderful time. My fiancée came with me and it was her first time being in my native land. She loved it too. Part of the reason it was so lovely is because I returned with new eyes. When I was last back…