Read time: 3 mins Our friends inspire significant emotion when we think about them. But when we are pressed to actually define friendship and express what makes our friends our friends, it can often be difficult to find the words. The poet and author David Whyte wrote a book in 2014 called Consolations. In it,Continue reading “Friendship”
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5 Lessons to Help Save Democracy
Read Time: 5 mins History does not repeat, but it does inform. This is the key takeaway of Timothy Snyder’s book “On Tyranny – 20 lessons from the 20th Century”. Globalization was accelerating in the 1900s and its rise led to complexities that no one could have predicted. These changes were frightening and ever-present. InventionsContinue reading “5 Lessons to Help Save Democracy”
Of mice and men – can mice predict the end of the world?
Read time: 2 mins In 1968, only 3 months after Martin Luther King was assassinated for his services to human progress, 8 mice predicted how humanity would end. They lived in a rodential paradise. Food was available whenever they required it. The temperature was balmy. There were no predators and plenty of materials to makeContinue reading “Of mice and men – can mice predict the end of the world?”
Trust Shifts
Read time: 3 mins Trust is a confident relationship with the unknown. From the moment we became conscious, humans have navigated the world through an ever more complex series of risk assessments. Should I try this new thing or go this new way? Should I hire this person or buy this product. Which loan shouldContinue reading “Trust Shifts”
Hanlon’s Razor
Read time: 2 mins Prefer Listening? Find the podcast here Everyone has been in a situation where people have made mistakes. Some people have genuinely had people out to get them. Hanlon’s Razor offers a way to be both kinder to ourselves and to others by suggesting that the chance of an action being genuinelyContinue reading “Hanlon’s Razor”
Chemistry and Compatibility
Read time: 2 mins Sometimes you can literally feel the power of a connection with another person. It envelopes you, they cloud your mind, send shockwaves through your soul and tingle your fingertips. Throughout the history of story-telling, lust, passion and love have all had this physical component. It’s interesting that the words we useContinue reading “Chemistry and Compatibility”
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Smarticles has been developed as an antidote to mindless scrolling. It distills interesting, varied, and insightful knowledge gathered by others into short and easy-to-digest pieces. Lifestyle, psychology, history, politics, science, and many other topics are explored. There are guest authors who add different perspectives and voices, all available in short reads, from 2 – 15Continue reading “About Smarticles”
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