Is it an obstacle to progress? Or a necessary societal bulwark? This is a position which my opinion has changed over time. I think I’ve mentioned before that I grew up as a Socialist. I was pretty liberal in some of my views – but pretty conservative in others. Believe it or not, I still am. You can probably gather I no longer am hard-left in my views, but I’m not wedded to right-wing views…
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…
So I recently wrote a Tweet about men who are scared of being in love. As you can see, I called them cowards. I stand by that. However, a lot of people responded negatively to this Tweet (plenty of positive responses too – as is the nature of polarization). I mentioned in the Review for Vizi Andrei’s ‘Economy of Truth’ built within the Twitter model is the need for hot takes and polarization. The phrase…
“Maxims represent crisp, well-decorated, rhetorical, and seemingly universal rules which help us conduct ourselves in the world. They are compound ideas distilled into a few words. They do not exhaustively match the reality – but rather render it bearable.” – Vizi Andrei Maxims In this short paragraph from his book ‘Economy of Truth’ Vizi Andrei eloquently sums up maxims, their use and limitations, before proceeding to whimsically introduce these very same short, snappy heuristics in…