Authors whose work I think will stick with me…
Andy challenged some friends on FB to come up with their list of 15 authors that come to mind in 15 minutes and whose work we thought was going to stick with us for life. 1. Jostein Gaartner – "Sophie's world" in particular 2. Agatha Christie – spent many a holiday in her plots [...]
What a piece of work is a man….in search of truth – again
I have been studying philosophy in the era of Shakespeare. As part of that I watched Kenneth Branagh’s excellent full-length version of Hamlet, set in 1800s, later than the original setting of the play, which was Elizabethan England. In this video clip is a soliloquy from act II scene 2. The same soliloquy in a [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice…
“Wouldn’t it be nice….” Sounds like the advertising jingle for ‘dark matter’, some random chocolate brand I don’t like. In fact it is a sentence which describes well this segment I’ve started to write, instead of calling it “my utopia” or some such thing, it is simply “wouldn’t it be nice”. Thus giving me some [...]
Once I got caught…..@ TED2009
Posted in: Innovation, Personal Tags: Belonging, Connecting, Creativity, Humanity, Prosapience, TED2009, TED@PalmSprings
This is my TED2009 story [TED = technology, entertainment and design]. It aims to give you a sense of what it feels like to be there. Some of this may seem like an insider’s story and I apologise for that. For 3.5 days we watched, heard, tasted [those who got the bread in Long Beach [...]
6ft
Recording the progress Today the spirit level told us that the little 14 year old is not very little at all. He has now surpassed both parents in height and is within reach to the forecast made when he was 2 years old that he’d be 192cm tall as an adult. He is now 183cm. [...]
Oh what fun……
Posted in: Personal Tags: Entrepreneur, hunome, playshop, Prosapience, start-up, venture
Sometimes one gets to spend a good chunk of time with people and on a topic which are all exciting. To hear a diversity of views which all build for a bigger and better understanding of the topic at hand, goodie goodie goodie. I spent time over the last couple of days in exactly that [...]
How we love the things those we love love
My father loved his books Our home was always covered in books. Wall to wall books. Even our kitchen had a whole bookcase on something else he loved, cooking. My mother is the ‘chef’ and my father was the chef of the occasional day. I shipped 30 boxes of books from Finland to Australia in [...]
Ponderings on a balanced society…
Posted in: Life, Personal Tags: apathy, Belonging, conscious capitalism, crisis, education, finland, foundations, Innovation, pendulum swing, politics, privacy, ramble, societal change, values
A happy society? What makes that happen? Where is the good model? Some dimensions to bring about the conditions I lived through an amazing transformation in Finland during the 90s. It did require a good level of consensus but it was helped by a crisis. In the early 90s companies, like Nokia, and the whole [...]
Decision made – we’re staying in our paradise
I spoke earlier about our plan to move – or rather cash-in on the hard work on our home of 10 years. Our ask and the buyer dollar just did not match. So we stay. One thing we learned in the process is that ‘downsizing’ in Sydney is not what it should be. It was [...]
100 tiny heart attacks in a day
I am – it would seem – allergic to red wine and most probably also to white wine. It is either the tannins or the preservatives, not sure which or both. This predicament is truly annoying as I love red wine. Especially the full bodied ones. I do drink red wine though. For a moment [...]
What do climate change and books have to do with each other?
Illusions and cycles and beliefs….cannot believe the amount of disagreement Since my arrival in Sydney in 1988 this is the coldest and wettest winter….I don’t want to debate cycles and illusions and beliefs about that. Just a very practical observation. When so much water comes down that a city is not built for it – [...]
Home sweet home
Travelling for business is made easier by a return to a home Living amongst the rainbow lorrikeets and kookaburras for the last 10 years has been wonderful. We have had a little paradise on earth only about 15-20min from Sydney center. Now we are looking at changing our lifestyles to more city living or maybe [...]
Nabaztag
Posted in: Personal Tags: connected life, Connecting, fun utility, Nabaztag
My son lives with a rabbit From France I found a great present, mainly for my son. As it was a holiday without my boys I figured that I should bring something home. I read an article on Nabaztag and decided it was a neat gift. It is a wifi toy rabbit: connected, house trained, [...]
More on Edith Piaf
Posted in: Personal Tags: Edith Piaf, flaner, la vie en rose, Paris
Visiting Piaf I was in Paris for the last ten days. My first week was on business and the second week was a holiday with my mother who flew over from Finland and my cousin who works in Paris and stayed there for the weekend to join us. We had a wonderful time roaming around [...]
On far and near worlds
Posted in: Life, Personal Tags: Belonging, emergent, expression, far worlds, Humanity, near worlds, pragmatic
Defining the meaning of far and near in the context of this site…and maybe other…let’s see The name far other worlds for this blog came about in a chat with a friend. I had started with a name like tuning to musings, which did not seem to gel with the experienced blogger. He asked: What [...]
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