Following on from my last piece on Wasting Your Best Cognitive Assets, a challenge was presented in the form of, IF an aging population has such congestive ‘SuperPowers’, why are we not seeing it and recognising it spontaneously? A fair challenge perhaps, but the response can be summed up in a well coined phase – […]
December 21, 2025
If I have said it once I have said it a 1,000 times, always keep you learning account open for deposits. Some of you will recognise the name Steven Kotler, Author, Journalist and the cofounder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective and professed world leading expert on human performance. I stumbled upon his […]
December 13, 2025
What an insightful read, the Electric Vehicle (EV) battery imports the US made last year was in the BILLIONS! Which got me thinking, what would happen IF that supply chain broke, as we have witnessed recently with the pandemic (PPE) and the Ukraine war (energy). No sooner had I drafted this missive leading wtih the […]
December 9, 2025
An interesting question concerning the trustworthiness of technology, or perhaps more accurately those who control it, was raised out of my last missive, ‘Is Trust The Strategic Asset Democracy is Neglecting?’ that got me thinking. To start with let me lay that thinking out so you get the context, I am postulating that the defining […]
December 7, 2025
Following on the trust theme from my last missive – ‘How to Build a Dystopia – Start by Phoning HMRC About Your Neighbour’s‘, reflecting on modern democracies I perceive they are entering a period of structural stress. The issues are familiar, polarisation, disinformation, economic insecurity, failing services, collapsing faith in institutions, politicians putting party and […]
December 6, 2025
Once upon a time (or so we tell ourselves), reporting a suspicious neighbour to His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) was pitched as some kind of civic virtue, help us catch tax dodgers, protect public coffers. On paper, a noble cause. In practice? The first step on a rickety road that leads straight into Orwell-land, […]
December 23, 2025
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