People talking about trauma making you stronger has always been demoralising to me.

Late last year, I decided to find something I could do on my phone for those times when I was too tired to think or read, but wanted to do something while I was waiting for… an appointment, a train, a friend to show up. Something mindless.

Journalists are not doing their job.

I am so tired of people taking the erosion of stability for granted, or, worse, framing it as an unambiguously good thing.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first two essays from the Australia Institute‘s new Vantage Point series. The first was about the Australia/America relationship and the second about the issue with centrism as a concept. As such, I was greatly looking forward to the latest essay, which was about Australia’s embattled university sector.

Expedition 33 was a brilliant game in a number of ways, but I loved the polearms on show in particular.

I learned recently that internal monologues are real. Up until a few months ago, I thought they were a joke invented by sitcoms.

When reporting on heinous crimes, there is a tendency in the media and amongst many people to call the perpetrators monsters or something else to that effect; to dehumanise the perpetrator.

I’ve noticed a trend developing, which has been hammered in over the past few months in back to back examples. That is, universities have not been standing up for intellectual pursuits or the staff that seek them, and/or are abandoning important institutions to focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.