The choice that has to be made — Sitting here right now in my sister-in-law’s house, as my wife and I dog sit for just over a week, a thought has struck me. What if this was my life? What if we packed it all in and decided to move to the country, forsaking the city in order…

Lying is a skill like any other — For me personally, the best way to lie is by creating a story that you agree on with yourself in advance. Something that you can blend into the narrative of your life as easily as eating a slice of toast Something that becomes as commonplace as breathing and pushes you…

Where does time go? — I cannot believe that we are already more than 250 days into this year and with the weather being more than a bit of a damp squib lately, it certainly does not feel as though we had much of a summer. In many senses, it still feels as though it…

Not as easy as you think — We are all here on this earth for a limited time. That could either be for a year, ten years, a hundred years or simply hours. It is something that defines our mortality in a unique manner as we are all born with this knowledge. We all understand that we…

What did we learn from COVID? — We, or more particularly, I learned that whatever can happen, will happen. This is what I already knew and understood but oftentimes in life, seeing is believing and we can talk about something in infinite detail but until we see it for ourselves, we do not understand. Live by what…

At what point do you consider that you are too old to learn new skills? — I am currently 34 years old and plan to live until I am 100. That may sound like a lofty goal, but my Grandad lived to 98, so it may not be as far-fetched as you would first think. He was more or less blind by the time he died…

Sunshine doesn’t actually do anything, not directly anyway — Sunshine provides health benefits for your mood and saturates your body in vitamin D but it doesn’t actually do anything, not like snow. Snow provides us with small, white fluffy clouds that we can then pick up and throw at each other in the hopes that they will strike another…

Can we choose to forget? — We all have a conscience. It is what stops us from running around destroying everything around us and yet with a social conscience, we can choose to forget. Each time I head into the center of London I am reminded of how lucky I am. At times I do feel…

Is this the end or the beginning? — Chat GPT is not a revolution in development, it is an evolution and should be taken with a pinch of salt. VR and 3D, have both come and gone. VR is apparently still in its ascendancy but realistically, who can afford it and where is the huge install base? At…