What Harlem taught me

What Harlem taught me

In October 2019, I was staying in a hotel in New York and decided that I wanted to visit Harlem. More than that, what I really wanted was to experience a service in a Baptist Church. This was something I’d only seen in films and on television, something I realised I...
Doubling Distance

Doubling Distance

Navigation at sea is easy nowadays. We have electronic charts and GPS. The chart provides a map and the GPS tells us where we are. Easy. But what do you do when you are chatting with your friends in the cockpit and you want a rough estimate of how far away from...
3DC

3DC

3d conversations   “the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”   conversations connect us but they are not always easy sometimes, we even avoid them   3dc asks how can we have altogether better...
My Do

My Do

  I first went to The Do Lectures in 2011 …. then everything started to change. In 2019, I was asked to speak. I knew what I had to talk...
The Narrow Road

The Narrow Road

Some years ago, I read Richard Flanagan’s masterpiece “The Narrow Road To The Deep North”. Many passages in the book struck me but one in particular stood out. This is the moment, some fifty pages in, when Dorrigo Evans, the hero of the story, is served a steak. Evans...