“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” – Sherlock Holmes. There are many things in life I have absolutely no use for. My happiness levels will not even budge knowing I will never own a sports car or fly business class. I have no interest in …
The strange case of Dr Heart Attack & Mr Healthy OR How I discovered vegan messianism.
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” -John Maynard Keynes. Well John, I accept the new facts and I explode into action. That’s what I do. And here’s a little story to go with it. It starts at first with a cruise controlled 120 mph smooth rider Dr Heart …
How to earn a £100,000 eating and drinking like a boss.
Not only that, but whilst spending below the UK household monthly average food bill. Oh, and while maintaining a healthy weight and sustaining a physically active lifestyle including 5 workout a week. And no. This isn’t your ‘best job on the planet’ job advert where you get sold on a do nothing but lay on …
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Future me meets past me in a bar OR how I came to discover F-you money / Conversations with my younger self about financial freedom.
Image by Mobilos / Wikicommons FM: Here, sit down. I poured you this glass of ice-water. PM: What? Who the hell are you and where in God’s name did you suddenly appear from?? FM: I’m me. Which is to say you. Future you. You can call me FM. That’s future me. And you are past …
On the lockdown platform awaiting the freedom train / reflections from the bunker.
You know, I think we are almost done here. The flood is almost over. The land is dry’ish. The dove has returned with the surgical mask carelessly hanging loosely from its neck. The gates of the ark will soon be opened. The surviving species allowed out in pairs for a breather. Maybe some shopping even. …
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Hippy dad, Upside Down dad, the new normal, and what has bad ass Al Capone to do with any of this anyway / Reflections from the bunker.
Jogging in the park yesterday evening, just outside my home, and whilst carefully social distancing of course by dodging other joggers, dogwalkers and whole families on an evening walk, it became crystal clear to me that a new normal has settled in. Life in lockdown clearly has its phases. The infamous “Storm the toilet paper …
What followed in the aftermath of the Black Death is not at all what you might have expected / reflections from the Covid-19 bunker.
What does the world look like in the aftermath of a pandemic. Does it look exactly the same. Do we just go back to normal and forget about what happened. Or are we changed forever by it. Will we learn from this experience. Do we ever. Will I lose my eyesight to Netflix. Will I …
Social distancing on social media as an act of kindness / reflections from the bunker.
I sometimes think that if we wanna know how healthy we are as a society in the age of Covid-19, we only need to log into Facebook and scroll down our feed. Like a thermometer to the temperature of our collective state of mind, it tells us exactly where we stand. And scrolling down lately, …
The global infodemic of Covid-19 / reflections from the bunker.
The Covid-19 recession is the first stock market crash in history that was caused by a pandemic. From the Tulip mania bubble in 1637 and all the way to the Financial Crisis of 2007-08, all panics to date were entirely man-made. Not this one though. This time it's different (?). The current pandemic has brought …
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The day after the C19 pandemic / Reflections from the bunker.
How long will C19 pandemic last before WHO declares we are in the clear? And what will the world look like the day after ? Will our lives be the same? Whilst no one knows the answers for sure, we can always examine the aftermath of the previous pandemic, the infamous Spanish Flu, for some …
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