Automate and Simplify

I met a marine biologist recently. She was busy completing a PhD. We started talking about evolution. She says that natural evolution for humans no longer exists. Instead we are now immersed in directed evolution. Directed evolution is where because we have neutralised the trials and tribulations in our environment, we no longer evolve in [...]

I’ve messed around on the guitar for years, and I always considered myself to be learning the guitar. Then one day while I was on the bus I realised that if I wanted to be good at the guitar I had to become a guitarist, rather than someone learning the guitar. I felt a change [...]