‘This is just a test’
Apologies for the delay in writing. I’ve been in California for the last three weeks, immersed in preparing for Burning Man, then going to Burning Man, then recovering from Burning Man. I have so many...
View ArticleRage against the dying of the light
I was walking to the Extinction Rebellion protest last weekend, and I suddenly started crying. I hardly ever cry, and I have certainly never cried for the ‘environment’, or nature, or baby seals. It...
View ArticleThe student movement transforming the global economy
We’re so used to stories of snowflake students having meltdowns over Halloween costumes that it’s refreshing to remind ourselves they really can change the world for the better. Middlebury College in...
View ArticleEnough
The closest I’ve come to enlightenment was the two minutes when I was lying in a bloody heap on Valsfjell Mountain in Norway. This was back in February 2001. While skiing down a steep slope, I crashed...
View ArticleThe invention of the future
I met a futurist the other day. A traveller from a future land. We both gave keynotes at a conference on education. I sat next to him at dinner afterwards and asked him a bit about the futurism...
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