On this Christmas Eve in Paris
Kate Carruthers I contemplate the year past and the year to come and think on how I want my life to be. What do I want my life to stand for? Not…
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Flanders mud is pretty bad too
Recently I visited the site in Flanders where John McCrae wrote the famouns pomen In Flanders Fields. It is at the Essex Farm Aid Station only a few kilometres from…
People are still the best thing about LeWeb
Each year LeWeb conference evolves and improves on the last one, but one thing remains – the amazing diversity of people that you meet. And this is one of the…
TEDWomen – might be worth tuning in?
As they say to introduce this latest in the TED stable: “How are women and girls reshaping the future? The first-ever TEDWomen invites men and women to explore this question…
Success but on whose terms? What about personal brands and character?
There is so much pressure on people these days to be successful. And I do not think we are encouraged to stop and think what success actually means for each…
Social media: blurring the boundaries
In the past we used to be able to separate the public from the private and business from the personal quite easily. But this was an aberration. Privacy was a…
What constitutes a well-lived life?
As I sat today during the funeral of a friend’s mother I pondered this question. Is it simply achieving great age? Is it leaving behind many who loved you? What…
What do you work for?
Had an interesting conversation with some friends recently and it got me thinking about what we work for. In Western societies many of us work, in addition to money and…
Racism, Sexism and Privilege
Just came across two fairly old articles that are really worth reading: The Male Privilege Checklist by B. DeutschThis is a summary of the unconscious privilege to which able bodied…
What Do You Believe That You Cannot Prove?
There is some really thought provoking stuff over at esr.ibiblio.org – Armed & Dangerous – (esr.ibiblio.org/index.php?p=184 full story here), an excerpt follows below: “I believe, but don?’t know how to…