Thinking Out Loud

Three meditations from one month of fatherhood | #69

What my newborn is teaching me about grief, self-judgement, and attention

Apr 18 • 

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March 2025

Notes from the threshold of fatherhood | #68

I'm excited to meet my son

Mar 2 • 

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March 2024

Why real change feels weird, unfamiliar and wrong | #67

If you always do what feels familiar, you will never change

Mar 14, 2024 • 

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Notes on friendship as a co-adventure | #66

Friends are for living life with, not just for talking about life with

Mar 7, 2024 • 

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February 2024

Notes on identity: authenticity vs 'profilicity' | #65

Deossifying

Feb 17, 2024 • 

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September 2023

Blunt not the heart | #64

3 September 2023: Shakespeare on feeling emotions, some Write of Passage workshops, and a podcast I was on

Sep 3, 2023 • 

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August 2023

Grieve the road not taken | #63

17 August 2023 :: Re-emerging after some time in my body-mind. The sun is shining and the birds are singing. Here are some thoughts on the road not…

Aug 17, 2023 • 

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April 2023

Choose what you want to feel rewarding | #62

Bouncing around apps first thing in the morning like a squirrel on meth might feel rewarding, but is it really what you want to feel rewarded by?

Apr 15, 2023 • 

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Thoughts on Twitter and my creative behaviour | #61

Why I want to spend less time on Twitter, and more time on platforms like Substack and YouTube that encourage deeper thought, research and refinement.

Apr 8, 2023 • 

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March 2023

You are large, you contain multitudes | #60

In response to the advice to "be yourself", perhaps the answer should be "which one?"

Mar 26, 2023 • 

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Job titles are contemporary archetypal energies | #59

4 March 2023 :: Whether you are a CEO, a manager, an engineer or a clerk, how much of your motivation, goals and focus come from you vs the 'energy' you…

Mar 4, 2023

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February 2023

When the body knows more than the mind | #58

25 Feb 2023 :: It wasn't heartburn

Feb 25, 2023 • 

Michael Ashcroft

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