Recently, I have been reading a series involving a lot of politics of the Roman Republic and being the history and politics buff that I am, I started playing some games comparing the two political systems and, in particular, thinking about what would happen if we adopted a one year…

Resolution Quarter One Tracking Back at the start of the year I set a number of resolutions across various parts of my life that I wanted to be making improvements in. …

Last Easter was an opportunity to reflect for me. I was In lockdown and thought about how my Easter’s growing up had been. …

Sometimes you read a book that shifts your way of thinking about the world and last year, I read such a book. The book, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson was one I finished the day after New Zealand…

Back in 2014 I wrote some thoughts on Waitangi Day and was thinking about them seven years later while driving through Auckland on 181st anniversary of the Treaty. So I thought I’d track down the old writings and provide a quick edit to (hopefully) update it for 2021. Te Tiriti…

The book I enjoyed the most in 2020 was one of the last books I read. These Truths by Jill Lepore is dramatic telling of the history of one of the most fascinating nations on earth. I came to reading this book having just watched Hamilton on Disney +. The…

Instead of setting broad resolutions for the New Year, I am adopting a series of specific targets across core areas of my life. My philosophy is that by setting a target I am putting in place a goal to work towards. …

After a long break through my adolescence and early adult life, I am now entering my third year of a 52 book a year reading challenge. In good news, I succeeded. In better news, I built a spreadsheet to track what I read and analyse the data! The full list…

I, like many others, have set broad and general New Years resolutions before. The problem with resolutions like “eat better”, ‘drink less”, and “exercise more’ is that they are difficult to measure against your past self to determine success. …