In the last few years, we have been poignantly reminded that this world is a pretty ugly place to be, haven’t we? A crippling pandemic. A war in Europe. A cost of living crisis. This world isn’t all fun and games, is it? It’s full of suffering and evil and chaos at every turn. And […]
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One of the most important lessons to learn in life, and one that often takes the longest – particularly for productivity geeks – is that we are finite. It’s appropriate to have big goals, ambitious plans and causes that we care so deeply about that we’re willing to make considerable sacrifices to contribute towards them. But
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N.B. This article is an except from the beginning of my book ‘Programming: A Primer’ (Copyright, World Scientific Publishing) Over the past few decades, computers have radically changed the way we run our lives. They have affected the availability of information, our methods of communication with friends and family, education, business, healthcare and our study
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Since the beginning of 2020, the global workforce has undergone a seismic transition away from the office, towards a flexible, hybrid-working model. And the question that we’d all been asking is answered: for many of us, hybrid working is here to stay. I for one had never worked a day at home until the pandemic,
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How social media inescapably impels us to warp, sideline and replace the stuff that really matters Nature or nurture? It’s the long-standing question which has mesmerised ethicists, confounded the academy and characterised the ambiguities of political debate throughout the decades. It’s an issue with implications right at the heart of many of the most pressing
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These are uncharted waters. Relentlessly, the technological titans of the 2020s are pressing on with their agenda to connect, to simplify and to automate. ‘Get smart’ is the consumer’s plea to every tool and technology in his arsenal – or face getting left behind. Data is the new currency of power, standing by to extract
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In so many ways, one of the most fundamental problems the world faces could be described in one word: confusion. We’re confused about our place in the world and the meaning of our lives. We struggle to translate our sense of what meaning is into a set of tangible and ambitious goals for our lives. Even
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In the early 19th century, as the industrial revolution was well under way, engineers from across the West were heavily invested in designing machinery of all colours for increasing the efficiency, safety and affordability of manufacturing. In Nottingham, a group of textile workers had been secretly organising themselves under oath in anticipation of a nation-wide
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Freedom is one of those abstract and elusive ideas which, in the English language, evokes some of the most profound feelings of awe and wonder. Encapsulated in that single term are ideas of democracy, aspiration, and equality under the rule of law. Running within its veins is the principle that governments exist to facilitate our individual
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Book Summary Whoever you are and whatever you do, share what you do with the world. We don’t want human spam, but people love to see the inner workings of the creative mind. Think process not product. Share little snippets from your work. Over time, your accumulated body of content will get people invested in
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