It seems obvious to me (but significantly under-discussed) that the media we consume dictates so much of how we experience the world and is not merely a mirror on reality - but an immutable self-fulfilling prophecy machine. If we don’t understand how we are being seduced, we have no way of avoiding the associated harms.

Some thoughts on the implications of the Stoic wisdom found in Epictetus’ Discourses. Why is it so hard for us to put this into action? Why is our happiness still reliant on external circumstances?

Tyler Cowen ran a fascinating experiment with his 2019 Stanford talk on his latest book. I want to see more of these steel-man experiments from public intellectuals and, to be honest, all of us in our daily lives.

3 lessons I learned from Einstein after reading Walter Isaacson’s biography detailing his life story.

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.