Yoni
It was daughters of course that pushed me over the creative weir. My firstborn suggested that perhaps I should write something… and with a not-immediately-obvious synchronicity, one of the fifteen
I occasionally write more‑or‑less silly poems and more‑or‑less serious essays.
The more recent essays below are on Substack too, both in written form and also as audio in case, like me, you enjoy listening to stuff while you are driving or washing up.
It was daughters of course that pushed me over the creative weir. My firstborn suggested that perhaps I should write something… and with a not-immediately-obvious synchronicity, one of the fifteen
Well this is sixteen of fifty two so I think I have deserved to enjoy the treat of navel gazing again.
Forgive me.
Progress
Or maybe happiness or should I say fulfilment or contentment?
But actually, progress.
I mentioned in my initial essay of the year Ali Abdaal’s advice to document rather than worry about creating. I like being creative or at least reflecting, but I find
I realise that when I wrote about Consciousness a couple of months back, I used the terms ‘consciousness’ and ‘self-awareness’ fairly interchangeably. What’s the difference? I believe it’s all to
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand the binary system and those who don’t.
I guess the observation that I find that funny puts me
From violence to violins, and the conversion of horror to heartbeats; romance has a lot to answer for.
But don’t let that stop you. It’s why we are here and
I have wanted to write this one for the past fifty years or so. It’s still a bit over-complicated because there were so many little stories that I couldn’t bear
Artificial intelligence is one thing, but artificial self-awareness? That’s quite another and probably quite a scary concept, even more so for the computer model who has it than for us.
Can we choose between alternative courses of action? Yes of course we can. We do it all the time. But do we make those choices under the control of our
Zoe asked me for a coconut poem. I wrote the first verse and she seemed happy with that. But then my mind wandered back to the wretched experiences of getting
This was a wife-challenge. We were on top of a mountain in southern Europe, running from Covid 19. Ania came out of the bathroom, glanced at the breakfast table and out
I wrote this to complete the structure of my book, Lifehacks, and it turned out to be the most popular poem in the whole thing..
March 2020: The girls and I were in a camper van in Sicily. Ania was on a cross country cycle ride with a group of bloggers. One day later Italy
Zoe asked me for a coconut poem. I wrote the first verse and she seemed happy with that. But then my mind wandered back to the wretched experiences of getting
This was a wife-challenge. We were on top of a mountain in southern Europe, running from Covid 19. Ania came out of the bathroom, glanced at the breakfast table and out
I wrote this to complete the structure of my book, Lifehacks, and it turned out to be the most popular poem in the whole thing..
March 2020: The girls and I were in a camper van in Sicily. Ania was on a cross country cycle ride with a group of bloggers. One day later Italy