Dec 31, 2019Seven books that kept me distracted from my phone in 2019In the age of internet, with pieces of information reaching us in overwhelming quantities, the habit of reading real tangible good ol’ books feels like an animal species on the brink of extinction. It seems like reading a book nowadays is a form of activism, some sort of intellectual equivalent…Books7 min readBooks7 min read
Feb 7, 2019Winners Take All —Anand Giridharadas and the structural failure of “win-win” as a way of thinking about the world’s problems.Think of the person who seeks to ‘change the world’ by doing what can be done within a bad system, but who is relatively silent about that system. Think of the person who runs an impact investment fund aimed at helping the poor, but is unwilling to make the connection…Politics7 min readPolitics7 min read
Sep 10, 2018The Hidden Life Of Trees.“Slow down, breathe deep and look around.” Is it fiction? Is it magic? Is it real? Does it matter? Those are the questions I’m left with after reading The Hidden Life Of Trees, What They Feel, How They Communicate, by German forester Peter Wohlleben. I’ve walked through quite some forests…Environment4 min readEnvironment4 min read
Aug 30, 2018The hermit, the beast & the quest for a thriving life.Book review BEAST — Paul Kingsnorth ‘What kind of man am I? I wonder what I think about that now that I have spent a year here, watching the layers peel off, stripping myself back. You peel and peel and peel but there is always another one underneath. Does the…Travel5 min readTravel5 min read