Before getting to this piece itself, a word about how it came into being. Over the past few months, I’ve been working with AI (ChatGPT) not just as a …
There are words that carry more weight than ordinary discourse can hold. Some sit close to the limits of what we can bear to say. Genocide is one of them …
“Come on, Rachel” I hear a voice deep inside of me whisper...” You’ve got this. You can do this. Pull yourself together. You know human beings have an innate …
The Deeper Import of This Week’s AWS-and-More Internet Outage Everyday fragility Frustrated not to be able to start an Amazon return yesterday here in Sheringham, on our …
In response to a powerful and seriously useful paper (do read it first!) from my German colleague and former President of EMDR Germany Michael Hase, I asked Chat GPT (OK …
A Word of Context For this post I began by asking ChatGPT for a first draft, then shaping and expanding it myself. What follows has been extensively adjusted, edited and …
I'd considered doing a really fancy, graphics-rich newsletter (envious of Annabel McG for her recent one), but time and age intervened, so herewith (what was going to be …
Well, that didn’t last long. Turns out that, in Brayne language, retirement has all kinds of meanings. Three months ago, it seemed absolutely the right thing to do – to …
Mark Brayne, December 2024 It’s been a long time brewing, but as Ralph McTell (and I, as a young guitar enthusiast at university in the late 60s) used to …
Hoping you've had as good a Christmas/festive season as one might hope for in these challenging times, may I first wish you a rewarding 2024 in every possible …