Category: Ruminations
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Rumination 58: Everyday AR
In my previous job, I made the two-hour trip to Sydney CBD each morning—half in the car, half on the train. I never really became accustomed to it but I tried to form habits and routines to make it as efficient and painless as possible. Eventually, it was time to move on and I found…
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Rumination 57: Subconscious Ferrari
More and more these days, you hear—particularly from educators—about how the earliest years of childhood are formative years. It’s a time when the course of your life, your skills and your preferences are being determined. It’s the foundation for the memories and stories that will define you. I realised this in a very, very small…
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Rumination 56: Holy Synergy!
On the weekend, I attended a first communion at a Catholic church in Wollongong. To be upfront about my views, I am an atheist but attended out of respect for others’ beliefs in my extended family. I noticed two things whilst at the church that showed that for all of its supposed emphasis on humanity…
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Rumination 55: Would You Like Hyphens with That?
Back in March, I wrote a Rumination called Compound Modifiers, in which I complained about people’s general lack of appreciation (or rather, complete ignorance) of hyphens. Without hyphens, businesses end up producing all kinds of ridiculous labelling and signage that are technically incorrect. Whilst often understandable anyway, the resulting text can often be misconstrued or…
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Rumination 54: Quail Bags
Just over a month ago on Micro.blog, I posted a photo of an amusing shop sign, which you can see along with my caption below. Mmmm… Kentucky Fried Handbags are fingerlickin’ good… I loved the idea that a shop would not only come close to using the full name ‘KFC’, but also go for a…
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Rumination 53: Needless Storytellers
I work in communications and believe very strongly in the value and power of narrative. Humans are social animals and whilst we live in an obsessive age of data and measurement, we still make sense of the world through stories that we share with each other. Every individual, family, culture and organisation has a narrative…
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Rumination 52: Overstated Minimalism
Back in March, I wrote a piece called Je suis KmÀrt in which I discussed some of the annoying, meaningless drivel that is printed on cheap clothing for marketing purposes. My essential point was as follows: ‘What I find concerning is the way that people mindlessly scoop up such items, using them to project false…
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Rumination 51: Fabricating/Inventing
I recently finished reading Beyond Good and Evil by Friederich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Frankly, it was one of the most profound, challenging and at times abstract texts that I’ve ever read. Throughout the book, I came across numerous sections that seemed almost prophetic (aside from some of the more outdated and even…
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