There’s a saying in writing, ‘writers write.’ It seems trite but it is the truest thing you can say about being a writer – and its a fact most aspiring writers ignore. Most people who want to be writers talk about writing, but spend their evenings watching TV. I know – I’ve been there. Each…
Month: September 2020
4% and being in Flow State.
In this video Jeb Corliss is grinding the crack. I’ve watched this video at least 50 times. I find the idea of flying that fast and that close to the ground exhilarating. The risk that wingsuit pilots take amazes me. I always wonder how people end up with where they are in life, doing what…
Pay Attention
We pay attention. We don’t give, loan, grant, gift or donate attention. We pay. Attention as a topic isn’t discussed often. Instead it is folded into the critical issues we believe are severely impacting how we live today. And we tend to miss its importance. We ironically don’t pay attention to attention. ‘Pay attention. It’s…
If a news headline has ‘could’, ‘might’ or ‘may’ in it, I don’t read the article.
I call it speculative journalism because I’m kind. It’s more accurate to call it click-bait or fillers. There are so many news headlines and articles that speculate about what might happen (but is unlikely to, at least in the short term), that I’m starting to wonder if there’s an arm of journalism that’s sole purpose…
The problem with universities in Australia
Universities across Australia are laying off thousands of staff and regional campuses are being shut down thanks to significant falls in revenue. With COVID-19 and Australia closing its borders international student enrollment numbers have plummeted. Furthermore, the competition to enroll domestic students next year is going to be intense and it’s likely that the smaller,…
Smart people aren’t doing important work.
I work in marketing, and like any career out there, there are days when I love my work and on other days I want to give it all up, start a vlog and become the next Casey Neistat. The best part about my job is that I get to work with some really smart people….
Reality and the stories we tell ourselves.
In one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s seminal works; Nausea, the main protagonist; an historian by the name of Roquentin, goes through the disquieting experience of the world becoming too real for him. In the novel, the world gradually becomes more and more imposing, as if the reality is breaking through his will; his ability to impose…
My take-out from COVID-19? It is all about trade-offs.
I hate commuting. Literally hate it (and I actually know what the word ‘literally’ means). I drive to work, at least I did before COVID, and I considered the time I spent in the car as dead time. That hour and a half in the car added nothing to my life. I felt that was…