Other Thoughts

We all sometimes choose the easy way. But easy doesn’t produce great results. And sometimes easy is just plain wrong. Maybe it’s time to develop a 7th sense.

I spent last weekend with a friend in Cape Town. My friend’s super power is her sense of fun and humour. What’s in your glass? I am a "glass-is-half-full" kind of person. To my friend, however, the glass is almost full. After speaking to many people recently for whom the

Let’s be honest. When we have a question, the first thing we do is Google it. Or Bing it. For the more tech elite, we might Duck-Duck-Go it. (That doesn’t quite work as a verb, but you know what I mean. And if you don’t, just Google Duck Duck Go.)

Thanks to movies, you’ve probably heard the term "the butterfly effect". The butterfly effect is the idea that small changes can have large consequences. Edward Lorenz, an MIT meteorology professor in the 1960s, suggested that the flap of a butterfly’s wings might cause a tornado. It’s a big universe Last

A Mail and Guardian reporter wrote that this January has already been 3 months long. My week has certainly been long enough to count for next week as well. It might be the "back-to-work" syndrome, but I think it’s also "load-shedding syndrome". Is that a thing? It should be a

Welcome to 2023! 1 January is just the day after 31 December, but we’ve imbued it with symbolic importance. The end of the year is a time for reflection. The start of the new year is a time for new beginnings. Have you ever wondered why we do this? A

FUTAB: Slang for "Feet up, take a break". A tip to reduce end-of-year fatigue It’s that time of year when we are all exhausted and ready for a break. If you google "end of year fatigue", you will find hundreds of results. I skimmed through some, and they all had

The Twitter debacle is like an imploding building – we can’t look away. But there are more things to think about than just Elon Musk. We can learn from this.