Author: PGR

  • merciful release: navel-gaze blogday blahblahblah

    merciful release: navel-gaze blogday blahblahblah

    Happy blogday to me! I have owned and written stuff on this domain since 14th March 2006. Eighteen years! It seems quite astonishing to me, that stretch of time. This will come as not surprise to regular readers, of course, who will be accustomed to me writing “it feels like an eternity, and yet like…

  • divestor storytime: reading “Village People”at Media Evolution

    divestor storytime: reading “Village People”at Media Evolution

    I keep promising an in-depth post about the Media Evolution collaborative foresight cycle I was involved with late last year. Apologies, but this is not that in-depth post—partly because I’m currently very busy working on the next collaborative foresight cycle (of which ME do three each year), among various other client-facing things. But this post…

  • preludes to enantiodromia

    I’m seeing enough of them, now, and discussing the concept with enough people online and off, that I think it’s time to start clipping examples of people pointing at harbingers of enantiodromia—the sudden inversion of a paradigm into its complete opposite. Here’s yer man Dougald Hine—a far better-known and more widely read Brit-who-fled-to-Sweden—in a longer…

  • 08MAR24 / dockside, springtime

  • among all the hundreds of bottom right corners of left-facing pages: thoughts on notetaking

    among all the hundreds of bottom right corners of left-facing pages: thoughts on notetaking

    Last week I found myself in the new-to-me position of talking about being a writer to people studying for postgrad qualifications in creative writing. This was a very strange experience, and not entirely a comfortable one. Over the last decade or so, I have become fairly comfortable with expounding on matters and/or techniques in which…