Failure as a human being and as a leader. The curse of self-awareness. When I was young, I had a strange experience. One that would probably have had me on medication or sectioned in a therapeutic home if I’d lived in the US and told an adult. But one that was absolutely real to me, […]
A short piece on the portability of principles, instinct and having enough certainty to become your own ‘authority’. Has being ‘unvaccinated’ (i.e. normal until five minutes ago), damaged my career or made my life more difficult? Should I have kept my mouth shut? Was I just being a desperately paranoid weirdo? I don’t think so. […]
Zero Nets, after Net Zero. In many ways, I am dismissive of people classed as ‘conspiracy theorists’ on the internet these days, not because they make preposterous claims. In fact, they’ve been right on nearly everything in the past two or three years, from Epstein to Covid, and after watching The Northman, probably Nicole Kidman […]
What does it mean to believe in fate? Why bother with the ‘Christian Label’? We Merchant Sailors live a hungry freelance existence. Your dream job comes up three or four times a year, but you are already engaged elsewhere and unable to take it. The guy with his bag packed, ready to go, is the […]