“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
Friends, the time has come for another Ask Didact Anything brain-dump. This instalment addresses a wide range of reader questions, starting with a fascinating article sent to me by a reader, and continuing on through various points of interest raised by members...
Yes, I know, this edition is late. What can I say – it was a STUPIDLY busy week. I was literally travelling across, down, and back up the country, and by the time I got to about 4pm on Friday, I just said, “sod it”, and passed out on the couch for a...
I realise I am quite late to the party here, but the (relatively) recent publication of two long-form articles in The Washington Compost is worth examining a little. These days, the ONLY good reason to read The Jeff Bezos Blog is to get an understanding of what Clown...
7am?!? I should BE so lucky on a Monday morning… I had to wake up at the asscrack of dawn – actually, where I live, the Sun didn’t even have the decency to show the hell UP until something like 0800 – to make my way to a client site. And the...
19 Therefore, brothers,[c] since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we...
As I may have said a few times before, there are days which seem to take years to pass, and then there are years which seem to pass in days. This year, 2023, certainly seems like the latter. We are already just three weeks away from the end of the year, and we are...
Those of a certain age may remember a “musical act” called “Insane Clown Posse”, whose fans were basically asshats calling themselves “Juggalos”. They were like Slipknot fans, but without even that extremely low level of class or...
Mondays are pretty awful at the best of times. They are even worse when you have to deal with public transport. And they are just MISERABLE when said public transport is shut down because rail workers are pissed about getting paid quite a lot more than the national...
8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless...
The Didactic Mind podcast is finally BACK with a new episode! This one is all about the importance of debt forgiveness, from both a moral and economic perspective, as it is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for ensuring investment in genuinely...
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