For my first Random Act of Suzanne for 2024, I thought I’d do a little series on what I’ve learned about being self-employed. This year marks my 20th year of being self-employed, which coincides with when I moved to Austria, and I think I’ve learned a thing or two...
The legacy of the A23a iceberg I’ve never thought of icebergs as having a destiny before, but this paragraph has made me think differently: “Their destiny is to fragment and wither to nothing. Their legacy is the ocean life they seed by dropping entrained...
For a long time, I tried to decide whether I was an introvert or an extrovert. When I am facilitating, I am extrovert: full of energy, constantly keeping people going, occasionally the “life and soul of the party”. But given the choice between going out and...
To comma or not to comma, that is the question In creating the “hopeful, sustainable futures” project, I was struck by a moment of uncertainty. Although I always separate hopeful and sustainable with a comma (this is a phrase I use a great deal in my...
AI is not the puppet master Stop saying “AI did this” or “AI made that.” That’s the long-story-short version of Scott Rosenberg’s brilliant article about AI and human agency. Oftimes, humans like to talk about artificial...
