Screenwriter (on 'Master and Commander', 'Happy Feet', ‘Tanna’ 'Hotel Mumbai' ...) Doctor and journalist. Interests include preserving a habitable planet.
Joined October 2013
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Stole my daughters copy (thanks auntie Sally) and listened to it on Audible over Christmas, Bridgid. Absolutely fantastic distillation of the best philosophy for living. Have been boring everyone with its virtues. Now Resolved to practise stoicism in 2023.
I also want to thank staff at @ReadingsBooks who voted for Reasons Not to Worry as their fav non fiction book of the year
Re-watching the excellent first series of “The Crown” - interested to learn that “Bagehot” - the key reference text on matters constitutional - is actually pronounced “batshit”
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I know nothing about internal Russian politics but found this article persuasive.
How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end? on Thinking about... snyder.substack.com/p/how-do…
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I agree
Hi @AlboMP and @JEChalmers I’m a high earner and I’m doing fine but a lot of people aren’t. I’d be happy to forego tax cuts in favour of improved services in health, housing and education. Really, I don’t need the money and we’d all be better off without the cuts. #auspol
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Yep, resentment is a powerful force and the strangest collection of highly privileged people seem to suffer from it - Putin, Murdoch, Trump, Steve Bannon, Mitch McConnell,
…It’s just hard to figure what they resent so deeply. The freedom of others to tread lightly in the world?
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Was a great pleasure to be involved as script consultant on this imaginative feature documentary.
Sarah Snook as the voice of Carbon - the creator and destroyer of worlds. ABC Australia Tues July 12th 8.30 pm nitter.cf/thecarbonmovie?s=11&t=…
Thaanks Andrew Denton: English Sport as seen by the Dutch. youtu.be/E_6d3JBBo4s via @YouTube
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Autumn here in australia. raking up the dead leaves it strikes me that a tree is a surprisingly immaterial thing. When you dry out the leaves and scrunch up the twigs there’s almost nothing there. Its a conjuring trick.
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There’s a PhD to be done by some bright psychology graduate on using Wordle as a test of personality/ aptitude. So much data out there now, and it reflects not just on literacy but on data-processing, pattern recognition, sleep, attention to detail and, in my case, impetuosity.
Four stages of learning to do something: 1. Unconscious incompetence (no idea what I should be doing) 2. Conscious incompetence (I get the idea, but it’s impossible) 3. Conscious competence (I can do it if I focus) 4. Unconscious competence. (I can do it without thinking.)
Hilarious, our dear leader sees himself as a paramedic who “just gets in and fixes things” ignoring the long list of things which have suffered from his non-intervention: climate change, national debt, the tax system, foreign relations, age care, flood relief..
