ian ross

“So many advantages come from being willing to look like an idiot in the short term.

You stay silent in an important meeting, afraid to voice critical thoughts and watch the project fail. You don’t write the novel because you’re afraid people might not read it. You don’t admit you were wrong and repeatedly make the same mistake. You don’t ask the... See more

In March - we’re going to be publishing a tiny series of new books on mindfulness, mental health, spiritual growth, community wellness and enlightened entrepreneurship.

This will be a fun experiment in not only kickstarting a new self funded book imprint - but also a great opportunity to collaborate with other authors, artists and entrepreneurs i... See more

“I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness,” he told me. “It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.”

Once, we built machines to free ourselves from labor. Now, they have discovered the one thing they cannot manufacture: the unrepeatable chaos of human madness. They can replicate neurosis, simulate doubt, but the raw experience—the despair, the rebellion, the grotesque beauty of being trapped in fragile flesh—they cannot mimic.