“… in a world that profits from our intellectual surrender, choosing to think for ourselves becomes a radical act”

As some who lived half my life before the internet my nostalgia is perhaps for the early days of the worldwide web which I found quite marvellous. It felt like a democratising force in the early days.

Thinking matters

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Reading is #resistance. It trains empathy, gets the brain off the dopamine pathways of social media, and opens the mind to other perspectives.

What do you want to let go of? And what would you like to create space for?

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“…a key dynamic of the next few years: being told we should be very worried about what the authoritarian Chinese are doing by Silicon Valley authoritarians we should also be extremely worried about”

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Good points made about the searching questions that SciFi writers might ask policy makers, and the importance of imaging positive futures as well as dystopian ones

In #facilitating a group, I find a sense of focused presence in listening to the diversity of views that come to the table. I enjoy the process of managing the time to balance space for unrushed discussions with moving through an agenda. It feels a little like a playful meditation.

Well worth checking out to spark your thinking.

Well said. I believe in finding all the joy we can in our precious lives, whilst also being aware of how we may be contributing to the problems facing the world and doing our best to change where we can.

Starter pack of Time to Think Practitioners set up by @servanemouazan.bsky.social fyi @skypacks.bsky.social

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The processing and articulation of information through the filter of our own experience and perspective is what makes our writing unique and valuable, whether we are national journalists or simply contributors to our own professional field.

Surprised at the low consumption of legumes. Most of my home cooked dishes contain them. Admittedly usually canned (healthy fast food) or dried lentils which are quick to cook. And frozen peas delicious added to all kinds of chillis, curries etc. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

146 pages into my weekend read. In The Mandibles, a family drama set in the near future, Lionel Shriver explores the US after the collapse of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. This scenario strikes me as feeling perhaps more plausible now than when it was first published back in 2016.

Agatha Christie is a guilty pleasure and I was delighted with these new condition hardback facsimile editions picked up secondhand yesterday.