Podcasts

Two points about growing old

June 10, 2022

Although he is barely middle aged, Tim Dowling has a keen eye for how things have changed for him while growing old. He got me thinking.

The subjective experience of thinking—instant poem

October 15, 2021

The subjective experience of thinking is different for everyone. How do you see or feel or hear your own thoughts? Do they belong to you?

Annoying your friends—instant poem

July 21, 2021

When someone told me, “All friends are annoying 15% of the time,” it hit me like a thunderbolt. That means I’m annoying too.

Cat thinkies: the dangers of travel

November 24, 2018

Ursula considers traveling abroad but decides it is impractical.

Are you a search engine or a filing cabinet?

March 15, 2018

On first encountering the web in 1996, like most people I was fascinated by two key questions: how can I find information online and how can I enable my own web pages to get found? Like any poet trying to get her head around a problem I constructed real-life analogies—analogies that failed promptly, because a […]