I stopped using Twitter in November 2022, but you can still browse my archive of tweets on leadership, art, architecture, philosophy and much more.
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“I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.” — Michel de Montaigne
Painting: Floral Still Life, 1639, by Hans Bollongier; oil on panel, 67.6 x 53.3 cm. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. @rijksmuseum rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection…
[Time for another weekend break from Twitter...]
[1/2] “The best conditions for thinking, if you really stop and notice, are not tense. They are gentle. They are quiet. They are unrushed. They are stimulating but not competitive. They are encouraging. They ...”
How effective is William MacAskill’s altruism? — “Silicon Valley's favourite ethical system is fatally flawed.” @unherd (by Arif Ahmed) unherd.com/2022/11/how-effec…
The line of beauty — Why we’re glad to be alive. @TheTLS (by Kieran Setiya) the-tls.co.uk/articles/this-…
Meetings Are Miserable — “One of the most straightforward paths to happiness at work is to fight against the scourge of time-consuming, unproductive meetings at every opportunity.” @TheAtlantic (by @arthurbrooks) theatlantic.com/family/archi…
In an Age of Constant Disaster, What Does It Mean to Rebuild? — “Each catastrophe is a test of what kind of society we’ve built. And each recovery offers a chance, however fleeting, to build another.” @nytimes (by Matthew Thompson) www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproje…
Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole — “Integrity is the sine qua non, the essential ingredient, of civic virtue and a litmus test for our times.” @AntigoneJournal (by John Rob) antigonejournal.com/2022/10/…
Murmurations: Returning to the Whole — “To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole.” @yesmagazine (by Adrienne Maree Brown) yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022…
[1/2] “One of the first steps we can take towards generating internal accountability is to develop an assessment of why the world is as it is. This requires us to leap from the uninformed faith we have in the societal myths we were given as children, to the informed faith …”
The Chaos Machine — “This is a story not only of technology but also of what happens when it commingles with fragile psychologies and vulnerable societies.” @Lit_Review (by Carl Miller) literaryreview.co.uk/are-you…
‘The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World,’ by Max Fisher (Quercus, 2022). @QuercusBooks quercusbooks.co.uk/titles/ma…
The woolliest words in business — A a plea for managers to use woolly words thoughtfully. @TheEconomist (by Bartleby) economist.com/business/2022/…
Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade — “What role should greed play in how we run the world? Should it rule us and shape all that we do?” @EvonomicsMag (by Jag Bhalla) evonomics.com/free-market-ge…
A Regenerative Economy Starts with a Mindset Shift — “No individual leader, team or organization exists separate from each other and from the world.” (Giles Hutchins) @bmwfoundation (interview by Wolfgang Kerler) twentythirty.com/article/gil…
The generous philosopher — “Bruno Latour showed us how to think with the things of the world, respecting their right to exist and act on their own terms.” @aeonmag (by Stephen Muecke) aeon.co/essays/bruno-latour-…