The Anti-Expert Pandemic: Comfort of Conspiracy Theories In a Covid World

Is it just me or has covid brought out all of the nutters? I feel like we’re all trapped in a perpetual version of Dr Seuss’ Wacky Wednesday and we can’t see a way out. Everywhere you look there are conspiracy theories from microchips in Read More …

A (not-so-typical) Australian (bushfire) Christmas

I was always going to make a video this year about a “typical” Australian Christmas. The plan was to highlight the carefree nature of an Australian summer in contrast to a white Christmas. Little did I know that this Christmas period would be anything but typical. Read More …

Change is Evolution and Growth, not a Crisis.

I’m slowly, grinding out of Bangkok in sporadic convulsive lurches. My soundtrack is an out-of-sync rhythmic clack of steel and the pained creak of old carriages, protesting the speed at which the old diesel engines pull them unwillingly. In quintessential South East Asian rail tradition, Read More …

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The Danger of Achieving Your Life Dreams

I’m not a negative person. This isn’t some click-bait, anti-self-help article.  You see, I was watching quite a depressing documentary last night on the late Tim Bergling, better known as the DJ and dance music producer Avicci. The 28-year-old was one of the more recent Read More …

From the happines of survival-mode poverty to an anxious ‘better life’.

A journey from the struggles of a ‘developing country’ culture to the ‘lucky’ developed west. I’ve spent a lot of time travelling through developing countries and diverse cultures over the last 10 years. I’ve trudged the gritty streets of Manila, navigated auto-rickshaws, cows and swarms Read More …