Cleanliness culture
How clean is clean enough? Where’s the boundary between hygiene and morality when it comes to cleaning your house?
Tag: Gibbston
When Things Don’t Work
There’s a world of hidden subsidies out there propping our pleasant first world experience of life
Views
Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars…as true as it was unbelievable. Who should apologise?
Which is my bestest interest?
Economic models typically assume humans act in their own best interests. Except they don’t…so the field of behavioural economics developed. How do we figure out which are our best interests we should act on?
The cage gilding fell off
Here comes delta – only a single case but it has triggered a national lockdown.
How about thia?
Could we please have a new 3rd person English pronoun that is gender neutral to simplify life? Rather than having to tell everyone our pronouns on emails, it would be much easier if pronouns could be the same for everyone.
Endings
Why are people so reluctant to accept endings? Everything eventually need to end to make room for the new, bike trips, ideas and organisations alike.
Chewable chunks
The concept of chewable chunks applies to COVID as much as cycle touring. Here are our strategies for breaking a 1300km cycle tour into chunks of a size we can cope with.
Focusing on the journey
Cycling and cycle touring are two of my all time favourite activities. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love cycling.
Contrasts
I like contrasts, such as the difference between our isolated property in Gibbston, Central Otago and in Redcliffs village by the sea in Christchurch. I’m going to really miss travelling in COVID times because I love the learning one finds in countries when you don’t speak the language but discover you can communicate across the divides. I will have to change the scale of contrast I’m seeking.