Philosophy

The End of Think Tanks and the Beginning of Thinking

The Nordic Secret: why personal development may be the key to social democracy

The recurring challenge of your life: how to get from act one to act two

You keep saming when you should be changing. — Frank Sinatra

Thank you Robert Pirsig

Yesterday I received a text from my wife Siva just after leaving my office: “Apparently Pirsig died today.”

I stopped in my tracks and noticed that the space created by sadness was filling up with joy. There was solidarity with the man himself, knowing his…

Imagining a world beyond consumerism(1)

I am responding to a brief about how we might go ‘beyond consumerism’, which is much harder than it sounds. Consumerism is deeply problematic, but despite its obvious limitations, harms and absurdities, it is remarkably difficult to displace as our default…