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  • Blog: “Your problem is, you’re too honest”

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    Ayup, it’s been a year of people “helping” me to be a better me. Which is nice, innit? Some kind of hilarious stars-out-of-alignment, anti-self-improvement, drone-filled ‘one of us’ years with the untested assumption on the part of those around me, ‘don’t you want to be more like me?’ Having hit forty, gentle reader, there’s a…

  • Empathy is not Action

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    “These days empathy has become a shortcut. It has become a way to experience delicious moral emotions without confronting the weaknesses in our nature that prevent us from actually acting upon them. It has become a way to experience the illusion of moral progress without having to do the nasty work of making moral judgments.…

  • Happy New Year!

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    … wait. It’s *February*?!

  • December! 2010!

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    What. A. Year. It’s pretty much done: one more day of day-job, several weeks of resting AND writing, and then back for another round in 2011. January seems so long ago I can’t even remember what I wanted to get out of this year. Of course, I *should* have written myself a message at futureme.org,…

  • What I’ve been doing

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    Shockingly beautiful day in Sydney today. Really. From the workday window it was all rippling blue loveliness and appalling picture-perfectness. It really ticked me off. Speaking of. Lately I’ve been busy working full time and writing. The full-time work — though not to be in any way encouraged (whoever thought 5 days/week was a good…

  • It’s my birthday!

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    I love birthdays. Not as much as I used to, though. As I said to one friend this morning, ‘Nowdays the gifts are like a kind of compensation.’ On the bright side, I totally scored on the presents!

  • Chocolate Friday

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    Today I had a chocolate bar. Which is not of interest in & of itself, except with relation to the fact that I rarely eat chocolate bars & don’t even remember the last time I ate a chocolate bar or what that chocolate bar might’ve been. But today I was tired enough that the charity…

  • Forward and back

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    Ahhhhh, January, welcome back. With the last precious few days of my holiday running out, I’m fighting off the organising-the-year blues (insurances, taxes, gym, house maintenance) & trying to make the most of what I gots while I gots it. “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with,…

  • Hey, I’ve worked for this place

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    Ah, Dilbert. Font of all wisdom.

  • Because it’s just been that kind of year

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    It started with the life-threatening cut to the wrist that covered my kitchen in blood, but successfully missed all major arteries. (Wouldn’t think it to see the bloody mess we cleaned up at 3am.) It continued, with the home break-in that resulted in one smashed window ($400+, thank-you very much) & the loss of ……