Life
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A regular vanilla imposter
My pal is facing redundancy, and he’s around the same age as me, in his fifties, and he will be, depending on his financial situation, looking for a new opportunity (employment). It’s a difficult stage of life when it comes to job seeking if you do what we do. If we were hairdressers or bricklayers Continue reading
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Different but maybe not wrongly so?
My travellers experiences It’s Saturday, we, Em and I, are in a shop in Shrewsbury and I am being served by the single employee that is at the desk. There are a couple of girls who came in after me waiting patiently for their turn. I have been there 10 minutes because I am trying Continue reading
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Roast beef and mustard memories
We visited a farm shop, the Rhug estate near Bala in Wales. We’re not really wealthy enough to shop there regularly, but we call in for coffee sometimes on the way back from the Welsh coast. Or should I call it the Welch coast, since our trips are always focussed on history and we had Continue reading
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At a loss
I’m going to be controversial again, remember though, before you might get upset about this post, that I have run this idea past the independent intellect that is my Em. Women are, for the most part, almost completely incapable of entertaining themselves… they need goals. This post is entirely based on my own observations and Continue reading
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Rendered Useless
Some of the joy in life is provided by going forward in a meaningful way. It is a beautiful and worthwhile thing to grow as a person, to develop new skills, to have new conversations, to become a better person or operator of the tennis racket. What AI, big data, and bio-metric interventions (technologies built Continue reading
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Be shit, it works
A shittier service at a higher profit margin, this is what rationalising causes. The economic model serves the vendor/supplier and screws the customer. If you can save 20% of costs, and lose 5% on service then you’ll very likely go for it. The customer has no choice because it is not their choice to make. Continue reading
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Deception again
Here we are back again discussing deception. I love this subject, I have a deep interest in thinking about power, narrative, and the result on people of hearing stories. I often find myself relating a process or problem with a story myself, one that explains context and conveys understanding much better than the technical explanation Continue reading
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Am I mine?
It’s easy to act within accepted moral expectations when your circumstances are comfortable, but this breaks down easily when those circumstances change. Imagine a circle, where we start at any point and work our way around until we arrive back where we started. Let’s say we begin at the point where we ask “what would Continue reading
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Three Chairs
I caught this radio show on BBC Radio 4 called Word of Mouth – 23.01.25 Word of Mouth with Jackie Kay talking about the Scots language, and as usual I started thinking about what she was saying. Her perspective was that the maintenance of a local language ensured the survival of a local culture, and Continue reading
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Do what you can
My partner Em worries about things she cannot change, at least not by her small participation in them. Problems with humanity, problems that can be solved but never are, mainly because nobody with the power to is willing to take the steps, or exert the influence, that could make a difference. I often think about Continue reading
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