A Blade Grows Sharp Against Stone
A blade grows dull against silk, sharp against stone. Our urban lives have become silk-smooth motorways of convenience, gliding us from comfort to comfort whilst our sensitivity to the world beyond ou...
The Forgotten Creates Space for the Unprecedented
Forgetting operates like selective erosion, wearing away the sharp edges of experience whilst leaving the general topography intact. We misunderstand it as loss, as failure of retention, as cognitive ...
Three Dimensions We Confuse
My father recently shared a post referencing Krishnamurti, and the idea of a perpetually inward-looking humanity emerged for me. What would happen if we were—all of us, all the time—always fixated on ...
The Permanent Limitation of Any Generative System
The permanent limitation of any generative system is the actual personality and the life-experience of the user. Why? Because even if the sound is generated, unless it is given a voice by the user's p...
What If Teachers Were Learning Diagnosticians
A thought experiment: What if we approached classroom learning with the diagnostic precision of medicine—minus the pathology? Consider how doctors observe patterns and personalize treatment. Now imagi...
The Bridge Phenomenon
For years, I dismissed formal education as irrelevant theatre. This scepticism wasn't intellectual rebellion but lived experience—the skills that define my work emerged through solitary practice, guid...
We Need Someone Who Knows Who We Really Are
We have to tell someone—at least one person—about who we really are. The risk is that we will ourselves start believing that we really are who we pretend to be. We might forget who we really truly are...
A Broken Compass Pointing Towards Impossible North
Democracy has always been a broken compass pointing towards an impossible north. We built it knowing it would malfunction, yet we persist in following its trembling needle through the digital wilderne...
Designing for Entropy Rather Than Despite It
Engineers optimise for efficiency. Gardeners work with entropy. Somewhere between these approaches lies how we might better understand human motivation. Your morning coffee grows cold whilst you delay...