The building blocks of freedom
Freedom is subjective and hard to define. But we have to start somewhere. I’ve looked at three aspects that would directionally get me to my own definition of freedom.
Category: Life Ordinary
The constraints on freedom
Reading The Dawn of Everything made me realise that we might have traded individual freedom for what we call civil society. And this version of civil society, from all that I see around me, is going rogue.
Reflections on my OS – Part 2
My ‘wiring’ has an impact on my work too. The mindset I bring to my profession has an origin story and patterns that have been created over time. Understanding that is a good way to start any rewiring.
Reflections on my OS – Part 1
Stoicism, and the reading I do, has made me focus more on the self. No, not being selfish, but trying to get a. better sense of why I am the way I am. A book I read recently – Behave – gave me a good starting point.
An incognito good life
The measure of what makes a good life is quite subjective, but increasingly, the decision is being made on the basis of how that appears to the world. In the recent past, I have been making conscious trade-offs.