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Blunt not the heart | #64
3 September 2023: Shakespeare on feeling emotions, some Write of Passage workshops, and a podcast I was on
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Grieve the road not taken | #63
17 August 2023 :: Re-emerging after some time in my body-mind. The sun is shining and the birds are singing. Here are some thoughts on the road not…
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Choose what you want to feel rewarding | #62
Bouncing around apps first thing in the morning like a squirrel on meth might feel rewarding, but is it really what you want to feel rewarded by?
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Thoughts on Twitter and my creative behaviour | #61
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You are large, you contain multitudes | #60
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Staying alive to aliveness | #57
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Thoughts on Twitter and my creative behaviour | #61
Why I want to spend less time on Twitter, and more time on platforms like Substack and YouTube that encourage deeper thought, research and refinement.
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You are large, you contain multitudes | #60
In response to the advice to "be yourself", perhaps the answer should be "which one?"
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Job titles are contemporary archetypal energies | #59
4 March 2023 :: Whether you are a CEO, a manager, an engineer or a clerk, how much of your motivation, goals and focus come from you vs the 'energy' you…
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When the body knows more than the mind | #58
25 Feb 2023 :: It wasn't heartburn
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Staying alive to aliveness | #57
Would you rather be sensitive to everything, good and bad, or live within a narrowed range of experience?
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A densely-patterned fabric of meaningful stories | #56
Greetings from London. My year of nomad adventures has come to an end. But as I close the curtain on that phase of my life, I'm looking ahead to the…
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Fugitives from ourselves | #55
29 September 2022 :: exploring the shutdown mechanism
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