It really doesn’t matter when you read this. But if you’re reading it now, just on this side of 2022, you know that the year behind us has been abysmal. And the year before that was pretty bad too. Threatening weather, threats to our democracy, threat to our health and…
I don’t write a lot about semantic search these days. The primary reason is that after five books on the subject including the ground-breaking Google Semantic Search I’ve grown bored of covering the same ground just for the sake of gaining a little more search-visibility as an authority on the…
William Gibson, famously said “The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.” If we’ve learnt anything at all from 2003 when he said this and today is that by the time the distribution curve of the future we envision is plainly visible to us it is already…
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? That, in a nutshell, is the question posed by Solipsism and…
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. Those past instances…
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…
