Author: timothyjpickles

I wrote this at the start of April. On the whole it has aged well. I wouldn’t change the overall approach – the need to hedge a no vaccine scenario by managing transmission, as well as recognising that for the youngest the virus represented a risk lockdown was unwarranted for. But I would change one […]

A Failure In Outcome Why effective goals matter To succeed at anything you need a target. A goal. An objective. A direction of travel. Goals are incredibly important. They provide the logical framework from which everything else flows. Goals are not in themselves a guarantee of success. For example, just because you have decided to […]

What Covid, I think, has revealed is that we now live in a dangerous age. The Age of Entitlement. An age where, consciously or otherwise, the majority of people in the developed world have adopted a state of total denial. Detached from reality. No longer do many accept or understand our quality of life – […]