Processed Truth – with Additives
Inspector Lestrade: “We’re obviously looking at a suicide. It does seem the only explanation of all the facts.” Sherlock: “Wrong.…
Reclaiming our Focus from Technology
According to a mobile phone ownership survey in the UK, 74% of the population owns a smartphone – a percentage…
Learn to see what there is, not what you think there is. Especially about yourself.
Dreams and reality People can be unreliable, untrustworthy, self-serving, incapable and more besides. When things go wrong in ways they…
Lest We Remember
“Invert, always invert” recommended Jacobi. Like a cat, when we’re trying to see something clearly we should move our head…
Too close to see
What difference would it have made to the human race if we had never discovered reading and writing? How would…
World Views and Side-shows
In every side-show tent most of the audience are taken in by the illusionist: either marvelling at the magic, or…
Joined Up Thinking
“Like so many iconic American products, Los Angeles smog is now being made in China” Noticing this intriguing statement in…
Thinking Disutopia
I act without thinking I do not understand what I am doing I am literally muddling along my activities and…
Conversations with your subconscious
It is almost a truism that we, ourselves, are our own worst enemies when it comes to understanding ourselves and…
A Mind of our Own?
We must have time and a mind of our own if we are to improve the quality of our thinking” …