I stopped using Twitter in November 2022, but you can still browse my archive of tweets on leadership, art, architecture, philosophy and much more.
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19 Nov 2022
This is where Twitter ends for me…
“I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.” — Michel de Montaigne
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19 Nov 2022
This is where Twitter ends for me…
“I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.” — Michel de Montaigne
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19 Nov 2022
Painting: Floral Still Life, 1639, by Hans Bollongier; oil on panel, 67.6 x 53.3 cm. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. @rijksmuseum rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection…
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18 Nov 2022
[Time for another weekend break from Twitter...]
[1/2] “The best conditions for thinking, if you really stop and notice, are not tense. They are gentle. They are quiet. They are unrushed. They are stimulating but not competitive. They are encouraging. They ...”
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18 Nov 2022
[2/2] “... are paradoxically both rigorous and nimble.”
— Nancy Kline, from ‘Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind’ (first published in 1999 by Ward Lock)
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18 Nov 2022
How effective is William MacAskill’s altruism? — “Silicon Valley's favourite ethical system is fatally flawed.” @unherd (by Arif Ahmed) unherd.com/2022/11/how-effec…
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17 Nov 2022
The line of beauty — Why we’re glad to be alive. @TheTLS (by Kieran Setiya) the-tls.co.uk/articles/this-…
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17 Nov 2022
Meetings Are Miserable — “One of the most straightforward paths to happiness at work is to fight against the scourge of time-consuming, unproductive meetings at every opportunity.” @TheAtlantic (by @arthurbrooks) theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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17 Nov 2022
In an Age of Constant Disaster, What Does It Mean to Rebuild? — “Each catastrophe is a test of what kind of society we’ve built. And each recovery offers a chance, however fleeting, to build another.” @nytimes (by Matthew Thompson) www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproje…
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17 Nov 2022
“The stealthiest danger in a world shaken by ongoing calamities might be that calamity becomes ordinary. We learn to cope with it from day to day, but lose the ability to imagine beyond it.”
17 Nov 2022
Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole — “Integrity is the sine qua non, the essential ingredient, of civic virtue and a litmus test for our times.” @AntigoneJournal (by John Rob) antigonejournal.com/2022/10/…
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17 Nov 2022
“Integrity, the seed of virtue planted in one’s inner voice, so easily drowned out by the din of social media and peer pressure, speaks in just a whisper.”
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17 Nov 2022
Murmurations: Returning to the Whole — “To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole.” @yesmagazine (by Adrienne Maree Brown) yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022…
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17 Nov 2022
[1/2] “One of the first steps we can take towards generating internal accountability is to develop an assessment of why the world is as it is. This requires us to leap from the uninformed faith we have in the societal myths we were given as children, to the informed faith …”
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17 Nov 2022
[2/2] “… that we need in order to co-create the real world as adults.”
17 Nov 2022
The Chaos Machine — “This is a story not only of technology but also of what happens when it commingles with fragile psychologies and vulnerable societies.” @Lit_Review (by Carl Miller) literaryreview.co.uk/are-you…
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17 Nov 2022
‘The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World,’ by Max Fisher (Quercus, 2022). @QuercusBooks quercusbooks.co.uk/titles/ma…
17 Nov 2022
The woolliest words in business — A a plea for managers to use woolly words thoughtfully. @TheEconomist (by Bartleby) economist.com/business/2022/…
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16 Nov 2022
Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade — “What role should greed play in how we run the world? Should it rule us and shape all that we do?” @EvonomicsMag (by Jag Bhalla) evonomics.com/free-market-ge…
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16 Nov 2022
A Regenerative Economy Starts with a Mindset Shift — “No individual leader, team or organization exists separate from each other and from the world.” (Giles Hutchins) @bmwfoundation (interview by Wolfgang Kerler) twentythirty.com/article/gil…
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15 Nov 2022
The generous philosopher — “Bruno Latour showed us how to think with the things of the world, respecting their right to exist and act on their own terms.” @aeonmag (by Stephen Muecke) aeon.co/essays/bruno-latour-…
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15 Nov 2022
“For Latour, who was one of most influential and provocative thinkers of the past century, the world is always multiple. Above all else, his thought is pluralist – this is his legacy.”
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