Bobster Blog

My dark night of the soul has been lodging with me for years now. To be fair, it does the washing up sometimes, but it really ought to start...

Every mark you make, word you speak, or choice you act upon is a vote for the kind of world that will exist tomorrow. Culture, politics, eco...

Every time you reach for your phone when you’re bored, you’re rehearsing distraction. Every time you choose silence over honesty, you’re ...

Mastery is not about the number of hours spent, but the number of meaningful repetitions performed. The key to improvement is not simply the...

Wireless energy, once a theory, has enabled humanity to abandon traditional power grids; energy is beamed from orbiting solar satellites dow...

Romantic love is often entangled with physical desire, where the intoxicating desire for the other is mistaken for something deeper. The pow...

Every aspect of a person could be sampled, scaled, and extrapolated by AI. Not just voice, features, movement, but also personality and way ...

The earth, once clad in winter's shroud, now wears the Easter cloak of spring's rebirth. From the darkness light reclaims its throne...

One must remember: Evil pretends to be the divine. The wilfully guilty frame others for their sins.​ Cruelty cloaks itself as the guardian o...

Comedy is the universal language, even more so than Esperanto or interpretive dance. It reminds us not to take life too seriously, especiall...

The worthy wear no crowns, nor sit on golden thrones, Their wealth is not in riches, but in love they have shown. Their court is in the fiel...

Listening improves thinking;  thinking improves reading;  reading improves writing;  writing improves speaking...

Major philosophers have long debated whether evil stems from monstrous intent or mundane indifference. Hannah Arendt, in analysing the Nazi ...

I have no way of knowing what people really think in Russia; but I would take a speculative guess and say something like: 10% are fascist ch...

I remember a time, not so long ago, when boredom was a thing; now we are all overstimulated finger flickers. I think people are less happy, ...

A despicable act is particularly reprehensible when the perpetrators have had every chance to know better. In the 21st century, behaving lik...

I’m not interested in your hair, eye or skin colour. I don’t care what type of person you fancy. I don’t care what you identify as or belief...

Humans came along for the ride at the halfway point between life beginning on earth, about 4 billion years ago, and life ending in another 4...

I’m sitting here under an old oak true, on a bright September afternoon, with my phone at the ready, having told myself to record literally ...

A fear of loneliness leads to desperate actions initiating pain. Enjoying the peace of solitude is breaking free from this chronic condition...