Asymmetrical bets — what you need to know.
When we make decisions, we often don’t have enough information to guarantee favourable outcomes.
In this sense, you could call them bets.
We make bets on things all the time — which course to study, which job to apply for, which partner to pursue.
But some bets lead to disproportionate…
Its restrictions are its very strength.
I’ve been playing around with an old-school film camera lately.
It feels different, a good type of different.
The pictures feel special, too.
Whilst I tried to conjure up all the reasons why it felt so special to me, I found myself thinking about one point more than the others.
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Why we need collectivism, now more than ever.
The other day, I head out to central London to meet up with a friend. We were watching ‘Dune’ later that evening.
As I perched myself on the half-seat at the end of the train’s carriage, I couldn’t help but smile as I looked ahead. It had been so long…
I can finally see the difference.
There’s something that really irritates me about today’s ‘creator economy’.
It’s the entanglement of ‘art’ and ‘content’ and how both words are used interchangeably.
‘Content’ has been shoved down our throats so hastily in recent years that we can no longer distinguish a taste between the two.
I don’t have…
Stop adding, start subtracting.
“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery*
I love this quote. It’s an extract from a…
How confident are you about that?
If we’re not right, we’ll simply be labelled as wrong.
At least, that’s how many of us think.
It takes a lot of mental effort to say “I’m only 80% sure about this”. …
You were never meant to fit in.
I was recently talking to a friend about a common dilemma experienced in the creative world, something I think we can all learn something from:
Should we create things for other people? Or, should we create them for ourselves?
For many, the answer is the former — make things for…
It’s not always a bad thing.
Every now and again, I enter a ‘slump’.
Creatively, productively and motivationally, I simply cannot operate to a standard that I’m pleased with.
And that’s ok.
After all, to not ebb and flow would make me less human.
Understanding that this phenomenon exists, that it is normal and routinely expected…
How to plan your days to get the most out of life.
I think of each day as a representative unit of my future.
As we get older, we find ourselves with more responsibilities and reduced mental agility for squeezing them in.
So, how exactly should we manage them?
Could we batch things together?
Well, not all the time. We can’t fit…
