AJ

Oopsies incoming..

The Workhuman demo page reads like AI slop.... What does using "AI to turn appreciation into leadership intelligence" actually mean....

this is *extremely* satisfying

Why I Write.. Revisited Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash — As is the wont of everyone who writes – online or otherwise – there comes a time when the Why I Write question must be fac…

Why i Write, Revisited| prodigalabroad.com/2026/02/19/w...

Writing helps you organize and clarify your own thoughts.

When others read, it helps them do the same, whether they agree with you or not.

Both of us probably need the reminder a year from now.

This is why it’s valuable to write, even if your ideas aren’t unique.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha — Dukka Pursuing deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, to renew inner life, outer life, and life together. A nonprofit media and public life initiative.

Love is also the father
who plants an olive tree for every newborn
trusting they will grow up to harvest it

onbeing.org/programs/len...

Colm Tóibīn book cover: the testament of mary

Reading.... 8 years ago

Rio Ngumoha came on in the 77th minute and created more expected assists than any player on either side in the match (0.42)

Hinkley Point C is now expected to cost EUR 55bn in today's money.

That's a whooping 17,000 €/kW.

Or about 10x the per-kW price of a wind turbine and 30x solar.

Nuclear is a lot of things, but one thing is it not: cheap.

Alarm bells are ringing in the Horn of Africa. Farms are no longer yielding, pests are spreading, and tropical diseases are emerging. Climate change is real, and it’s destroying lives. #ClimateCrisis #GlobalAction

Surviving Grade II listed church spire

Out and about in Feltham today...

The essential questions of friendship and aging 😂😂😂

Wet blanket…

Vinicius Junior: Benfica claim 'defamation campaign' against Gianluca Prestianni after racism allegation Benfica claim there is a

The one about silence being taken for wisdom does come to mind… www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Train station with no trains (delayed)

Freezing... It is light though 😂

The four year old is apparently over her one year old sister.. and wants a brother-baby... She obviously hasn't got any clue there is a cost of living crisis...

How Africa Works [Introduction, Chapters 1 - 2] What ails Africa?

Delighted to see two eminently more intellectual chaps than I are reading (and thinking aloud) along.. I look and learn substack.com/home/post/p-...

😂😂😂😂

No Country for Young People: Notes From Ten Days in Eritrea, The Beautiful Prison Everything you've heard about Eritrea is probably true. But it is more than the sum of your thoughts, both negative and positive.

No country for young people. @eromoegbejule.bsky.social on ten days in Eritrea: open.substack.com/pub/24hourse...

How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's La… The birth of new nations, independent democracies, the …

Currently reading: How Africa Works www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

YouTube video by StarTalk Chuck Nice: Just Smart Enough | Full Comedy Special

Chuck Nice is hillarious: Just Smart Enough. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSAx...

Finally some sunshine... #21NotOut

In case you ever wondered, New Years Day on the Gregorian Calendar is cosmically arbitrary, carrying no Astronomical significance at all. Just Saying.

Meanwhile, the dates of Chinese New Year, Lent, Easter, Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Saturnalia, Christmas, & Ramadan, all index to Astronomical events.

At this point, might need to speak to whoever broke the Birningham City hex to protect our right backs 😂😂😂

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

Thinking in Bits (Bursts) In which I find myself running out of time to think, and delighting in the joy of a plain old notebook...

Thinking in bursts (aprodigalabroad.substack.com/p/thinking-i...)

First, tentative steps :)

The joy of (physical) notebooks

Brrrrr.....