Look Everyone, I Did A Thing! A Thing Called A Book

My new book – The Travelling Ape: What Travelling (Nearly) Everywhere Taught Me about Humanity, Geopolitics, and Happiness – is out now.

Can Intentional Pessimism Make You Happy?

Is blind positivity flawed? Could deliberate catastrophising actually make you happier?

Stop Thinking To Start Living

While we revere ‘great thinkers’, too much thinking is the path to misery.

Let’s Talk About Space, Baby

Most of us do our best to pretend our universe ends at the edges of Earth. This is a huge mistake.

NomadMania Interview

Here’s a recent interview I did with NomadMania, a community for the world’s best-travelled people. I talk travel, coronavirus, meditation, and a bunch of other stuff.

Why Having Political Debates Is Futile

If you are politically ‘engaged’, you might get tempted to convert other people to your particular political worldview. Don’t waste your breath.

Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

What is consciousness? This post explores why the mystery of consciousness matters. And how you can make use of it, to the betterment of your everyday life.

Is Free Will An Illusion?

Despite being the bedrock of Western civilisation, the concept of free will falls apart under close scrutiny. Why does this matter?

Despite What You Read, Most People In The World Are Nice

If you read or watch the news, you are probably left with the feeling that humanity is doomed, and that most people are ‘evil’. The more you travel, you realise the opposite is true.

Has The World Really Moved On From Tribes?

The more I travel, the clearer it becomes that we haven’t abandoned our hunter-gatherer roots. Almost all nations remain starkly divided into tribes.