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Seen, but Not Known: The Search for Genuine Relationship in the Age of Social Media
We live in an era where likes, follows, reels, and instant replies make up a significant portion of our interaction. The digital world has given us endless ways to stay in touch, yet the culture of social media, which connects us, also isolates us. Genuine and real community can’t be replicated…
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A Relationship Reset: Breaking-up with Tech (Part 2 — Joining the Cause)
Our use of technology not only distracts and dilutes some of our key relationships in itself, but also drives addictions which can be even more damaging to them. But there is hopeful evidence that people are becoming more intentional about developing stronger relationships and less confined to tech-addicted, tribal, divisive ways…
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A Relationship Reset: Breaking-up with Tech (Part 1)
There are signs of a movement afoot to change our relationship with technology. It involves shifting how we consume technology as it becomes more evident how it is consuming us – and our relationships. Technology has continuously served-up some combination of better-faster-cheaper possibilities – for almost everything: unlimited information …
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The Relational Consequences of Assisted Dying
The debate about assisted dying returned to the UK Parliament this week. The campaign to legalise assisted dying is fuelled by heart-breaking stories of people with terminal illnesses who fear an agonising and undignified death. But to make this possible for a few could have serious consequences for the…
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Why I seldom shop on Sundays
Nearly 40 years ago, soon after I returned from Africa and India to live in the UK, I ran a campaign against the government of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Prime Minister at the time, who wanted, in effect, to abolish Sundays as a special day by totally deregulating shop opening hours….
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Finding Peace with Money — Advice and the Relationist Investor’s Quandary
How we invest the money we do not need today but expect to need tomorrow is a key challenge for anyone committed to putting meaningful relationships at the heart of all aspects of their life. To a relationist, money has no intrinsic value — only value in the context of relationships….
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Time — the Currency of Relationships (Part 3: The Economics of Time and Relationships)
The interactions between time, money and relationships are complex and often go unrecognised. Time is the key resource — and the biggest cost — for many organisations. The language of money is readily applied to time: it is spent, saved, allocated, invested and wasted. It is, however, less readily measured and accounted for….