It's rare that I can justify an entire day to reading.  Being on the mend from my cold, and not being in a state to be efficient at much else, I was somewhat able to justify taking the time to read Kauffman's A World Beyond Physics just about end-to-end.  Although at many moments along the way I felt guilty about all the other things that I was "supposed" to be doing. Nonetheless, the timing of this read was brilliant.  I've always been fascinated by evolution and emergence and the broader application of these concepts.  I read Kauffman's 1996 work, At Home in the Universe, and this latest (2019) work attempts to add the missing piece in his theory of the emergence of life as we know it. I realise that reading helps me cope with a distinct loneliness I feel.  In continuously advancing toward the vision of reelyActive (my startup) I get further and further away from what might be considered the normal or established context.  In other w...

A few months ago, while walking my dog, someone stopped me and asked if I would be open to a spontaneous interview in which I'd answer a question selected by the previous interviewee.  Today, I sat down for coffee with that person, Cynthia, to ask her a few questions about how to capture and share discussions and interactions as part of Startical. One of the ideas that came up was to ask fellow entrepreneurs a simple yet revealing question, such as: If you had one extra hour per day, just for you, how would you spend that time? I tested that on the team over lunch and the responses were: Read (as a way to have time by oneself) Read (for much the same reason as above) Get outside and explore/visit Cynthia's own answer was "sleep".  I like the idea of asking such a question and noting the response and will definitely test it out further in the context of Startical!