His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few people
Terry Pratchett
The posts in this collection are about books that I have read. As it is with the other collections, there are some still to be ported over from their previous home. Once the collection is complete you will be able to see my – pretty eclectic – reading tastes. There is usually a short summary of what I thought of the book – the more ‘thoughtful’ books getting a longer summary.
I should also add that I really have read some books since 2020 😉
This set of posts explains itself – what we have here is a selection of photographic albums documenting some of the places that I have visited. The collection is not yet complete in that not all of the existing albums have been ported over from their previous home (and of course it is also incomplete in that it hasn’t been updated for some years now 😉 Hope you will find something you like in some of these collections.
This set of posts started out as a daily post on Facebook during the “lockdown times” in 2020/21 – sharing pieces of music that had some sort of ‘connection’ for me. They are, of course, a bit difficult to find on FB after all this time so I decided to recreate them here – alongside the many comments that were made on the original posts. My intention would be to add to the original list as and when I find recordings that attract me.
Within this part of the blog you will find me writing about all sorts of different topics – there is no particular structure so please use the tags and the search to navigate around posts which talk about similar thoughts.
Almost nine years ago now since I started this blog – although I had been blogging on my work intranet for a few years before that. I decided that now is a good time to recap on the raison d’etre of what I am writing here.
I’ve started on my newest online creation – partially inspired by the making memories series of posts here – to create a bit of a “life history” – a treasure trove of memories (probably real and imagined if you have read some of my previous writing on the subject) – a pot-pourri of little highlights (and possibly some lowlights) of my life.
Where do I go to feed my ignorance? The answers are limitless really and, simplistically, I go where life takes me. However, there are some sources that have proven to be of more interest than others to me and that is the point of this post. I have been lax in adding sources to this page – resurrecting it like this may help me be more pro-active.
The title of this blog “Feeding My Ignorance” is derived from the Terry Pratchett quote that appears at the top of the Wiki page. This allied to the Einstein quote on the this page illustrates that my take on ignorance is not a negative one – and that the fact that my ‘perceived’ ignorance is increasing is actually a very positive (if paradoxical) sign of increased knowledge.
Although the entries in this blog are sporadic and are not following any particular pattern there are a few themes that run through them and which recur in different posts. I’m just thinking that it might be as well to provide a bit of a summary and a few links to enable easier browsing between related posts.
It probably was not the plan to have a brief flurry of activity in this blog followed by quiet for months – but that is how it has turned out – almost echoing what was one of the first posts in the series which stated Prediction is difficult – especially about the future.
Hopefully things are now back on track and I have a number of topics that I want to ponder in coming posts – especially regarding systems thinking and a number of extremely interesting discussion taking place in the Systems Thinking World group of LinkedIn. I would certainly recommend that if you are interested in the concept of thinking in systems that you visit, join and contribute to that group.