A gut reaction to some current thinking on mental health
It’s amazing how a change in language can open up new perspectives. I had reason to reflect on this while listening to a recent...
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Is it too selfish to hope that some things will never change?
Having just closed the door on 36 years of full time PAYE employment and opened the one marked ‘self employed’ I find myself responding...
A momentous moment...
A momentous moment for me passed quietly at the point where March became April in 2018. It was the point at which I went from being a...
What goes around comes around
Crikey - I woke up a couple of weeks back to the news that Glaxo SmithKline are buying up Novartis’ consumer health division and was...
Charisma and counting
I recently read a great book about big data called Everyone Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. At the time I had been talking with...
How can you resist a jelly bean with a propeller?
Back in the mists of time, I was a research chemist for a large pharma company. I worked on anti infectives (mostly antibacterials) for...
Soul music and our perception of time
Over the last couple of years I have been doing quite a lot of coaching in the evenings with a consequence that I find myself driving...
Can ducks and squirrels to tell us anything about organisational adaptability?!
Some recent research out of Exeter has been comparing grey and red squirrels to find out how one has made such a great success of itself...
Name calling and sinister snails
I was thrown back into my past while listening to a recent radio programme and also when reading a Parish magazine in the village where...
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