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My Debt To You
“People are motivated by self-interest, they only do things because there’s something in it for them.” It’s a refrain,...
“People are motivated by self-interest, they only do things because there’s something in it for them.” It’s a refrain,...
Earlier this week my daughter showed me a recent school project. Her class was doing a unit on...
Pretty soon I will have completed my new music studio here in Singapore. This raises questions about how our...
Has this blog changed or has the blogger who writes here changed? After all don't we blog, at...
I love the title of this old ad, for Western Electric radios: Begin Without Disappointments. It’s my motto for...
For the first time since 2006, I’m ending a year feeling good about the state of this blog. My...
Recently I’ve been asked if this blog is “changing direction.” The short answer is no, not really. This blog...
Around this time last year I wrote two lists; of things I wanted more and less of in my...
Sustaining yourself in a creative endeavour, be it photography, music, design, writing or any other art, requires relationships. These...
At least once a year I like to audit the my software. This week I’m been going through that...
Compare the typical blog today with those from a few years ago and you will see one striking difference....
“When I (re)started blogging in 2004 my life was a mess. I was in a strange country, struggling with...
“Language has unmistakably signified that memory is not an instrument for the reconnaissance of what is past but rather...
As much as I love using paper and pen, writing is, for me, a task of keyboard and screen....
Is poetry an effective form for political satire and what are the limits of satire today?
As much as I love reading the travel sections of newspapers and magazines like Conde Naste Traveller, ever since...