Trying to make yourself stupider
“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” – CS Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
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Creative Destruction in the Music Industry at Ignite Wellington
Ignite Wellington was part of Global Ignite Week, and I was invited to do a talk as part of this exciting and (as a presenter) nerve-wracking endeavour. Each presenter is given exactly 5 minutes to present, and allocated 20 Powerpoint slides which are automatically advanced every 15 seconds; the presenter has no control over the…
Continue reading →A found poem from the early 1990s
I am a propellor on an aircraft carrier I spin and thrust silently under the waterline It can unleash tremendous power It only looks like it is going slow because it is so big I am a receiver on the dish at Arecibo My friends and I are listening For the others we know are…
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