Category: Opinions My thoughts about the world
If Joburg is red, Cape Town is…
Can a city be said to have a colour? In one sense, not at all. And yet, you can have a mental image, an impression, a feeling about a place.
How Gen AI reveals the mad, bad world we live in
The advent of a host of chatty bots has made clearer to us the outlines of the world we now live in. And the picture is not pretty.
What makes for a perfect song? (Plus a list)
We all have that mental list: favourite songs of all time (or perhaps the top ten songs by our favourite artist). I have both those lists, but there’s another: a list of perfect songs.
Why where you live is less important than what you feel about it
Cape Town is South Africa’s oldest city, and one of the most socially stratified. So where you live is important – or perhaps not.
What does being grown-up mean?
There’s adulting, and then there’s being grown-up. I learned the difference between the two early one morning…
Where reverence lives – it’s in the small things
The novels of Terry Pratchett are full of small gods. So is our family life – meet our own small pantheon.
My thoughts about the world
If Joburg is red, Cape Town is…
Can a city be said to have a colour? In one sense, not at all. And yet, you can have a mental image, an impression, a feeling about a place.
How Gen AI reveals the mad, bad world we live in
The advent of a host of chatty bots has made clearer to us the outlines of the world we now live in. And the picture is not pretty.
What makes for a perfect song? (Plus a list)
We all have that mental list: favourite songs of all time (or perhaps the top ten songs by our favourite artist). I have both those lists, but there’s another: a list of perfect songs.
Why where you live is less important than what you feel about it
Cape Town is South Africa’s oldest city, and one of the most socially stratified. So where you live is important – or perhaps not.
What does being grown-up mean?
There’s adulting, and then there’s being grown-up. I learned the difference between the two early one morning…
Where reverence lives – it’s in the small things
The novels of Terry Pratchett are full of small gods. So is our family life – meet our own small pantheon.