Past

The entries below highlight Dominic's subjective views on an ever-changing range and scope of subjects.

This is less a blog than a set of irregularly updated and often fragmentary views - on ideas and values, places and people - evolving over time into mini essais which pay humble homage to the peerless founder of the genre. Our writing is provisional, always open to change as new thoughts and ideas emerge.

The kaleidoscope is our prime metaphor, encouraging us to embrace change and to view issues through an ever-moving series of lenses.

Please see below selected recent purpose-related change.

See also:

• What's New? - Purpose
• What's Changing? - Meaning

January 2021

This page will contain regular updates about A Mundane Comedy, Halcyon founder Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in 2021. 

We will share regular extracts here and across social media from beginning of 2021. Please see below a short introductory extract.

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they control it, wish to influence its direction - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity

This book is about what goes wrong in our lives, and about how we can try to make things better. This already daunting challenge is made more daunting still by the fact that, while we have an illusion of constancy, our lives are in fact characterised by continuous change, both out in the physical world and inside our heads.

The 20th Century was about dozens of markets of millions of consumers. The 21st Century is about millions of markets of dozens of consumers - Joe Kraus, dotcom pioneer

Please see below selected recent business-related change.

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Please see below selected recent technology-related change.

See also:

• What's New? - Technology
• What's Changing? - Artificial Intelligence
• What's Changing? - Automation
• What's Changing? - Blockchain
• What's Changing? - Security

January 2021

“I wonder about the trees,” Robert Frost wrote. Monumental in size, alive but inert, they inhabit a different temporality than ours. Some species’ life spans can be measured in human generations. We wake to find that a tree’s leaves have turned, or register, come spring, its sturdier trunk. But such changes are always perceived after the fact. We’ll never see them unfold, with our own eyes, in human time.

Please see below selected recent conflict-related change.

These men, and those who opposed them
And those whom they opposed 
Accept the constitution of silence
And are folded in a single party - from Little Gidding, T.S. Eliot

See also:

• What's New? - Conflict
• What's Changing? - Peace

January 2021

Please see below selected recent poverty-related change.

See also:

• What's New? - Poverty
• UN Sustainable Development Goal 1 of ending poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030.
• World Poverty Clock

December 2020