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A trope I hear from time-to-time is that at the base of all religions is a common truth. It goes ...

A few days back I read a nice response by a Redditor called "ExRousseauScholar" to the question "Is the hedonic ...

Generative AI's boom is unstoppable and OpenAI's announcements this week, led me to try out a "GPT" - which is ...

It was a heavy hitting week for humanity scale concerns and generative AI warnings. Heavy hitting, not because of the ...

In 2022 my team released an AI neural net plugin to our SurfControl email filter that was trained to detect ...

About a year ago, my taichi teacher held up a sheet of paper with 4 characters on it and pronounced ...

regarding: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-universal I enjoyed this intriguing and well-written post forwarded to me by a friend. This post has some thoughts: ...

Stress is an unfortunate by-product of startup life - both for founders and teams. Picture a small team trying to ...

Much waxing philosophical has been made about organisations in a post-capitalist world, Daniel Schmachtenberger and Jordon Hall (Greenhall) are two ...

One minute on twitter has me questioning the sanctity of human life, but recent AI advances with GPT-4 raise questions ...

Rushing has always been my nature, and choosing startups as a career only intensified my sense of time poverty, whether ...

I read in a book by Steve Maxwell (a pretty well-known exercise and fitness hard-arse) a simple hack to counter ...

…. a Sumi-e painting workshop During 2020 I was fortunate to attend a half-day Sumi-e workshop with Ken Lamb* - ...

Two months ago I’d never heard of this. Now I’m a bit of a fan. For me it’s generally a ...

We've moved prose and poems to its own section, you can find it at Writing ...

A local tai-chi teacher** has a wonderful statement on their website that is illustrative of embodied practice. XingMing(性命) Xing ( ...

When Nadal, Sharipova or Azarenka make those grunts and wails on the tennis court they are doing something that is ...

I recently heard someone say that yoga wasn’t effective as a spiritual work - instantly I knew that person had ...

“If it’s not big it doesn’t count”. Do you think like that? Do you dismiss the hundreds of small accomplishments ...

Often when we wish someone good-bye - we say “take care”. Like most language habits it’s trotted out unconsciously, just ...

We all drift... sometimes an hour is lost scrolling (more on that another time). Sometimes for weeks or years. Pam ...

One of my teachers was a man called Henryk who had worked in building, carpentry and eventually used to run ...

Everyone is creative. Creativity is a birthright. But we seem to have lost the art of it.  As children, we ...

It’s a quick and fun way to wake up both the analytic and creative sides of the brain.  Face the ...

Winter is coming to a close. Get a jump start on the awakening of Spring with some sensory outing to ...

Post workshop palettes I recently rewatched the TED talk "Your elusive creative genius" by Elizabeth Gilbert from 2009.   It reminded ...

Self-talk Most of us would be embarrassed if others could hear the contents of our internal soundtrack. Our self-talk that ...

This is not new. As with everything in life, the cycles keep moving - the good times pass, but so ...

The sensation that is Marie Kondo has the magic of old truths that ring true being repackaged in a new ...

Taking yourself on a weekly Artist’s Date (that’s a date with yourself) as an opportunity to let yourself follow your ...

Don't think. Just do. Grab your journal, a book or some paper and write. Take a mundane scene: two people ...

I've just come back from a couple of days in the country - a complete change of pace, demand, activity ...

Many years ago I used a bought image in a job for a client for the Asian market. The girl ...

The Look - it's important - whether it's a one-off unique and personal item, a fully crafted corporate brand or ...