Paranoimia

I lie in bed some nights and the very last thing I do before I go to sleep feels wrong, wasteful and shameful. I’m on Instagram or, more likely, Twitter, just catching up on the last word on the day, grabbing hold of one, two or twenty more opinions before I switch...

French Kiss

Learning a new language doesn’t come easily to me, especially at 47. It might have been slightly less painful when I was a teenager and learning about La Rochelle and how to ask the way to beach in French. Last year, I thought I’d have a stab at learning a...

Refuse to be Denied

I’m listening to an audiobook at the moment called The Artist’s Journey by Steven Pressfield. Pressfield’s famous for talking about what he calls resistance: the thinking that conspires to stop us from producing creative work and sharing it with the...

Misery Business

As I wrote yesterday, worldviews motivate our actions. Social media companies’ actions are driven by profit – like any other business’s – and that means they want our attention (to sell to their advertisers). Lots of attention = lots of profit. The live-streaming of...

Human Behaviour

Worldviews are complicated and vary as much as people themselves. They determine why we do the things we do, and can be based on the philosophies, beliefs, emotions, understanding, intentions, morals, knowledge or values (or a combination of these) of a person,...