I have had to learn to unhook my psyche from the need to seek social validation online – the likes on my posts, the comments with ‘yes!’ or a fire emoji. Yet every time I am tempted to open those apps again – especially as a musician, a freelancer, whose career would seem to depend … More The Meta trial: unhooking the mind from addiction to social validation
This is a true story. It happened yesterday (as I write). I boarded the Elizabeth Line train at its South-Eastern terminus, Abbey Wood, opting for the train that wasn’t rammed-and-about-to-leave, in favour of getting a seat. I plonked myself down opposite a man perhaps in his fifties, bearded, big glasses, a little rotund, wearing a … More A Tale of Two Travellers.
While I’m currently reading 12 Rules for Life by the internet’s current favourite controversial intellectual, Jordan B. Peterson, I thought I’d share my (perhaps rather less weighty) 6 rules for life: Only drink coffee between the hours of 9am and 1pm. Tea may be drunk between 6am and 9am, and again between 1pm and 6pm. Colds are … More My 6 rules for life
Ben David Trigg 