There are three things that are evidentially wrong with our world right now: First, across the globe we see a polarization of opinions in people of different political and ideological camps that has widened the gap between dissenting world views. Second, we have the rise of information bubbles that act…
In my very early teens I came across a line in Confucius’ teachings titled The Great Learning that has always stayed with me: “What truly is within will be manifested without.”
It is beautiful, pithy, intuitive enough to make us thing we completely understand it and vague enough to readily…
If a tree falls in the forest and you’re not there to see it, does it make any noise? More than that, if you’re not there to see it did the tree even fall and does it even exist? …
You know just how the camel feels when its back gives out because a single straw added to its load ends up breaking its back. You’ve felt like this many times before. Different contexts. Different lives. The person you are now has come out of those moments. …
We are still in the “new normal” which means everything is still new and nothing is normal. …
When Cassandra turned down god, Apollo’s sexual advances she was cursed to be able to predict the future but suffer none of her predictions being believed. In the end it drove her mad.
I intended to start this piece with a mention of my latest book, Intentional: How to Live…
I’ve been fit for as long as I can remember. My earliest childhood memories are of activity. Chasing imaginary friends around my childhood home’s sizeable garden. Or swinging from the low hanging branches of the orange trees that adorned the bottom part of it.
As a young boy I did…
When you read the title of this article you had one of two predictable reactions: A. You said “ah, yes!” or, B. You scoffed. Both of these are predictable reactions and they mark the mindset you carry. …
A Chinese-made Type 69 tank, when it is battle-ready, weighs about 35 tons. At 2.8m tall it towers a good meter over an average sized person. Even when it is moving at half its top speed of 50km/h its 580 horsepower engine is sufficient to make the ground tremble. A…
