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The Curiosity Shop
What the Return-to-Office Debate Gets Wrong
Brené Brown and Adam Grant argue RTO debates miss the point: define the problem, then design hybrid work around it, not attendance.
Curated Curiosity
The Practice of Noticing
Books, quotes, links, and thoughts—curated with care.
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Links
A Bit of Optimism
Why Young People Don't Have ‘The Hunger’ For Work
Eliza Filby argues Gen Z’s “lack of hunger” reflects an economy and life-cycle reshaped since 2008, forcing leaders to rebuild security and belonging.
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When you give a depressed person advice on how they can get better, there’s a good chance all you are doing is telling the person that you just don’t get it.
David Brooks
Read post
30 Apr 2026
Links
Westenberg
On wintering
A case for ‘wintering’: deliberate withdrawal that rebuilds the self and enables deeper, longer-term work.
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On my Om
Memory Is the Machine
Why RAM and bandwidth—not cores—are the limiting factor for local AI, and why Apple’s unified memory is a big edge.
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The Conversation
Headspace: can our brains get full?
Your brain doesn’t run out of space; it filters and forgets when attention and reinforcement are lacking.
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The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true.
Elizabeth Lopatto
Read post
27 Apr 2026
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Our differences of perception are rooted deep in the hidden kingdom of the unconscious mind…
David Brooks
Read post
26 Apr 2026
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To be reasonable is to have the capacity to recognise that we aren’t the only ones making judgments of value…
Nikhil Krishnan
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26 Apr 2026
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison
Read post
25 Apr 2026
Books
Anam Cara
John O’Donohue
★★★★★
Read post
23 Mar 2026
Books
The Menopause Brain
Lisa Mosconi
★★★☆☆
Read post
31 Jan 2026
Books
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
JK Rowling
★★★★☆
Read post
23 Jan 2026
Books
You Are Here
David Nicholls
★★★★☆
Read post
15 Jan 2026
Thoughts
Autumnal sunshine
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2 Nov 2025
Thoughts
Wet and wild walk
It was a somewhat wet and wild walk, but was just what I needed to blow away the cobwebs!
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26 Oct 2025
Thoughts
Noticing
When it comes to amassing a stockpile of ideas…by far the most important thing is just to get into the habit of noticing things and making some record of them.
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4 Oct 2025
Thoughts
Moody weather
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3 Oct 2025
Thoughts
Trust your soul
Too often people try to change their lives by using the will as a kind of hammer to beat their life into proper shape.
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3 Oct 2025
Thoughts
First visit to the Emirates
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1 Oct 2025