Deaths will outstrip the number of births by the mid 2060s, according to a major report mapping out Australia’s economic future over the next 40 years This is the first line of an article I was reading

How come relationships are so hard? Are they hard? I don't think so. At least, I don't think they need be. However, I think they are getting harder to navigate in the current environment of selfishness,

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

I was talking to one of the regulars at the gym this evening, who is in his late fifties. We chat occasionally and he is a small business owner with a relatively physical job, though he has a handful of

After all the work done in the basement throughout the summer, I decided it was finally time to enjoy it a little. That required more work. The shower down there was filled with junk and the floor covered

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

I was writing yesterday how what we consume influences our experience by forcing a creative imaginative process, or feeding thoughts directly so we needn't create anything at all. Much of what we choose

I am reading The Fellowship of the Ring to Smallsteps at night and just finished the chapter "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" in which at the end Gandalf is pulled by the Balrog into the chasm to his

Harness the fire. While humans didn't invent it, it could definitely be argued that harnessing fire was the most significant achievement of humanity, as it led to all kinds of capabilities that were previously

Last weekend an Australian athlete won a Hyrox event (some crazy exercise trend in gyms across the world) after she had soiled herself. This is not uncommon under extreme physical conditions, with it happening

A friend dropped by for a coffee last night and we spent the time talking about lots of things like normal, but concentrated a fair bit on how we are getting worse as humans, because very little of what

The average novel is around 90,000 words. That means that in my almost ten years here on Hive and its predecessor, I have written in articles alone just over 77 average-length novels worth of words. I

While it was a small sample size of a few thousand, it was pretty interesting to hear that 20% of Gen-Zers have given up on relationships with humans in favour of relationships with AIs. I don't know how

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

When I was still living in Australia, a friend of mine was doing a project for her marketing course and was interviewing arrivals at the Cairns airport in the morning, to ask them about their travel plans

De·​ci·​sion The act or process of deciding. Seems so simple. Yet, a lot of us seem to struggle with making decisions, especially when it will require self-change. Familiarity feels safe and the unknown

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

The economy on consumption with supply produced to meet demand. But I think we are heading into an increasingly precarious position because what is demanded and supplied is no longer as it was earlier

I had an interesting conversation about fairness, decisions, consequences and responsibility today, and realised that many people seem to have a conflict in them. Essentially, every action is going to

I read something that might be called interesting (or perhaps insane) today, where Trump is "promising" (his promises and deals are worthless) to give $5000 dollar handouts to "every American