Dani Murphy

A strategist is a stylist - and the ones that aren’t are the ones who gripe about nobody listening to their advice.

Mental Time Travel Exercises

This article “How to do mental time travel” offers practical exercises to help you engage with your past and future selves. These exercises encourage adopting a long-term view and gaining a vast perspective on life, as well as your place in the world. Here is a list of the mental exercises that can help you gain clarity... See more

In his 1975 book, Women of the Celts , French historian Jean Markale delved into historical sources, old Welsh and Irish laws, as well mythological traditions to argue that Celtic women — whether Irish, Breton, or British — ‘enjoyed freedom and rights’ and ‘could become head of the family, rule, be a prophetess, enchantress or educator, could marry... See more

Irish people find humour in everything, and it is my favourite thing about us — the darker, or sadder, or grimmer a thing is, the easier it is to stand in, or next to, if you can laugh at it. Yet beneath the humour we aim at one another is a warning that what you do is seen and noticed. You are weighed and measured. You are found to have fucking no... See more

ChatGPT didn’t say much that was useful at all. But—as the students reflected in their conversation after reading ChatGPT’s analysis—neither did they. One student noted that they were just saying “formulaic, buzzwordy stuff” rather than tackling the issue with fresh thinking. They were unnerved by how closely the empty shine of ChatGPT’s answer mir... See more

It would be too easy to blame this entirely on podcasts, so I won’t. I’m going to blame it mostly on podcasts, partly on audiobooks and partly on devices that allowed you to carry TV round the house with you.

I’ve been writing for years about social media fueling the loneliness crisis and the way capitalism and big tech have innovated away human connection and trapped us in ecosystems that encourage and profit from a meaner, angrier user base. These platforms too often funnel young men into toxic spaces that answer their loneliness by pointing the finge... See more

Assume Lack of Context

“The person you’re working with might not know what you know, might not see what you see.

It’s tempting to begin where we are.

But it’s more useful to begin where they are.”

– Seth Godin