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 both the offline and online world, turmoil is the emergent theme of this century. From cheap drone technology to DDOS attacks; from Brexit to Trump’s election; from Antifa to right-wing trolls, disruption is endemic within modern life. Technology has changed the terms we play on, prompting this upheaval. Birth Control has disrupted the natural tide of sexuality, cars have disrupted the natural movement of the body and social media has disrupted our natural means…
Something has been growing inside me, bubbling away in my subconscious, for a little while now. I’ve been unaware that I’d been mulling it over, but yesterday the insight broke surface and popped into my conscious mind. What was it? The lack of importance the Western world attaches to symbolism. This trend of trivialising symbolism is linked to the demise of faith and pre-eminence of rationality within our culture; both of which I discuss here.…
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…