A woman I went to primary school with had her life support turned off this morning. Yesterday she fainted and it turned out to be some kind of brain aneurysm. In the ambulance she was put into an induced coma. By the time she got to the hospital they found

Nature has created everything you see around you using two tools, competition and the mistake. Despite this, it is common practice to want to try and remove these tools from your life. But you know how it goes when any system works against nature. It doesn’t last long and

We’re all on tour here. All guests of life. It goes fast but it’s the longest thing you’ll do. The ones who make the most of it have fun being themselves. You can tell who they are. They’re the ones who walk into a room and

For every person telling you to go left, there’ll be an equal amount telling you to go right. Thinking about this, you might start to believe the best way to give advice to someone is to say, “I don’t know.” That’s one option. It’s the easy

Emotions get amplified with others. People act differently in groups than on their own. Some people can’t exist without being around people. I flip back and forth. I go from needing to be around someone to wanting nothing else but to sit here and write down my thoughts. You’

A previous girlfriend of mine once said to me, “what you’re doing is weird.” She was talking about my absence from social media, no Facebook, no Instagram etc. I’d tapped out of them all. I realised the facade I was putting on. All the things I’d share

I learned a new phrase today. Long gamma. It’s from the book Antifragile (you should read it). It was used in the quote, “Life is long gamma.” In non-jargon terms, “long” means “benefits from” and “gamma” means nonlinearity. In other words, “long gamma” means “benefits from volatility and variability”