The rear-view mirror is useful to glance at once in a while, but we actually need to keep our eyes on the road. There is beauty and wonder to be found when we look forward with anticipation. There are abundant opportunities for casual magic in the every-day slog of adult life.

The Corona Virus has shone a light on how we manage immediate risk - but why don't we apply the same scrutiny, rigour and effort to long-term risk? Especially when we may have a moral obligation to do so.

My review of ‘The School of Life: An Emotional Education’ by Alain de Botton and his team.

My review of the ‘Rocky Horror Show’.

A musing on the scenes outside a boarding gate.

A poem.

My theme for 2020: The Year of the Last Mile.

My review of 2019.

Abraham Lincoln only accomplished what he did with a pragmatic understanding of scale, space and time.

Our obsession with having our name outlive us is getting in the way of fulfillment.

The Philosophy of Frozen II - Do The Next Right Thing.

My review and notes on Daniel Levitin’s book ‘The Organized Mind’: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.

Maybe the best career advice we could take onboard would be to be useful to the world.

I call for more savvy commercialisation of machine learning and less publicity-chasing sensationalisation.

Two short points on how English’s stranglehold on intellectual thought might be missing a trick.

My reflections on the 2019 Deep Learning Indaba held in Nairobi, Kenya.

2 things that I think are holding us back in intellectual debates/lectures in public forums.

My thoughts on the recent Uber Technology for Safety summit - looking at how technology solutions can make South Africa safer. (#Tech4Safety)

Ethics dumping is a scary trend where the Western world can export it’s dirty work elsewhere and still maintain the moral high ground. Are we aware of the consequences of such activities?

My reflections on my visit to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany.