Does Artificial Intelligence Signal the Death of the artist, writer and musician?
I haven’t given artificial intelligence a lot of thought until recently. It seems I’m always late to the party, and now I’ve got a dog in this fight, if that’s…
Rediscovering the joy of writing speculative fiction after a long hiatus
I have always been a writer, although at times I’ve done my very best to pretend that I’m not. In fact, for most of my life, writing has been such…
You are being spoonfed media bulldust with a cherry on top
I no longer consume mainstream media in any meaningful way. I still catch enough of it to know I am not missing anything. Publications that were once trusted have descended…
Medium commits the cardinal sin of arrogance
For those that don’t know Medium is an online platform that published articles by independent authors. It is a highly successful platform. I recall seeing statistics somewhere that stated that…
Can the system as we know it survive cryptocurrency?
A couple of weeks ago I was commissioned to write a piece on banks and cryptocurrency. I intentionally kept it relatively light and didn’t dig too deep. The subject is…
10 Books that changed my life one way or another
I was once an avid reader. A good book would have me immersed in a whole new world that allowed me to escape from whatever I was running from. I’d…
Why I Won’t Bid For Your Task on Airtasker or Upwork
Airtasker and Upwork are two platforms that have become key components of the gig economy. Upwork is by far the better platform from a writing perspective, whereas Airtasker tends to…
Why Bother with creating anything?
Last evening, I had a visit from a friend that I used to work with 35 years ago. Although he is five or so years younger than me, we were…
Work experience with John Loughnan Stud Stock marketing- a week that resonated for years.
When I was wandering aimlessly through my last year of secondary school, I was given the opportunity for work experience with a local firm that specialised in producing a magazine…
Rediscovering photography through the immediacy of photo journalling
Photography fascinated me when I was a kid. To be fair, there was much more to be fascinated about. Cameras were things of wonder with different lenses, shutter speeds and…