"What should my resolution for 2026 be?", I mulled as I cooked dinner last week. *Relentless Positivity* were the words that flashed in my mind. Not being an optimist by nature, I was somewhat excited by the prospect of experimenting with a different mental mode for the ensuring 12 months but then, I read the news ... It's not going to be easy, I realised. The world events inspired me to get clinical about positive thinking; what it means in practice and how to deal with a mi

Life is ebbs and flows - but how to navigate it all? A video popped up on my tiktok feed recently - featuring a middle aged school teacher sitting at his desk correcting assignments, with the following caption: "My students are asking me, how come I have an email address with my actual name?" His response (sanitised version), "Because I was around for the birth of the email ..." Who else remembers being alive in the late 90s - at the dawn of the internet? A fad for kids and n

Last week, I found myself at the center of an 'internet storm'. It was self inflicted - I posted a comment on Reddit that irked quite a few folks. The offending comment was a prediction: Mass unemployment in white collar professions and the Arts by 2030, thanks to widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The last hundred days will go down in history as being a period of economic and geopolitical turmoil that we probably didn't need ... No mysterious virus or natural disaster in sight. Just a narcissist, his ginormous ego and his band of bottom-dwelling buffoons, bringing chaos and disorder to our world. Most of these grifters couldn't run a school canteen -- in fact some won't even pass NSW's Working with Children Check. So, it really is staggering to see them in charge of th

A strange thing has been transpiring across the beaches in the Eastern Suburbs these past two years...

Our strange predicament Eight billion people, hurtling through space on the same piece of rock, have ended yet another trip around the sun seemingly, more divided than ever. You have to wonder, how can this be, especially now when we are more connected to each other than we've ever been? Misinformation, disinformation, algorithmically driven feeds (so we all see a slightly different version of reality), inequality, old and new prejudice ... the list of possible causes goes on

Feeling at one with the world - Willow the Wonderer, Space Odyssey 2024 has been 'the' year of elections 64 countries which make up 49% of the human population headed to the polls in 2024. As the year comes to an end, we find ourselves on the eve of perhaps the most consequential election of them all : The US Presidential Election.   Why should an Aussie care? Whether we like it or not, the decisions taken on Capitol Hill, greatly impacts all our lives. This time around, the

The Aussie book world has been rocked by the collapse of Booktopia . Its demise has left many avid readers wondering where they go to discover and order a wide range of titles online. It's a valid concern as large online book retailers like Amazon and Booktopia are able to offer readers access to a wide range of books, often at crazy discounts. Unlike Amazon, Booktopia was also an Australian company known for supporting Australian authors and books. Their demise has left a v

2024 has a nice futuristic ring to it, does it not? To my ear at least it sounds like the distant future we grew up hearing so many fantasies about has just now come around, and landed right at our doorstop. But does it feel futuristic? To those who have lived through several decades at least, it surely feels futuristic - what with the internet and the miniturisation and digitisation of all things in our lives, it's hard to deny that much in the way we live has changed.   Ind