When I graduated from university with an engineering degree I felt decidedly incompetent compared to those who were my peers. I have tremendous admiration for engineers.  They deal with and master technical complexities that leave me baffled. But, as Jordan Petersen has alluded, their competence is dealing with the Physical world and they often lack […]

We recently endured budget week. There were no surprises as such because, as seems usual nowadays, everything of consequence had already been leaked to the press. But some of the detail turned out to be alarming Labor has recently found another hook to hang its profligate spending on – it’s called “intergenerational equity”. But it […]

Every now and then something really gets under my skin! I am far from being a perfect human being. I have faults ad flaws and vulnerabilities like every human on this earth. But by and large, with some help from significant role models, and a life of deep contemplation, I have learnt not to be […]

There seems to be an ineluctable component of the human psyche that compels us to pursue Nirvana, the ultimate state of human well-being. In the past most major religions had mapped out a way to get there by spiritual paths. Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism had their own formulae about how to access Heaven, […]