by Minter Dial | Jan 25, 2024 | Digital Transformation, Leadership, Meaningfulness, Politics
The more things change… There’s a French expression that we have long borrowed in English: “The more things change, the more things stay the same.” In French, it’s usually “plus ça change, moins ça change.” (The original...
by Minter Dial | Jan 16, 2024 | Health, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Psychedelics
The power of psychedelics There is a lot of exciting news flowing from various prestigious universities and research centres (such as Imperial College, UCL and King’s College London in the UK, Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins in the US), about how...
by Minter Dial | Jan 5, 2024 | Ethics, Genomics, Health, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Psychedelics
Watching time pass by? I don’t know about you, but I inevitably think of time passing when we chime in the New Year. That said, I’m definitely not one who musters up new year’s resolutions. But the changing a digit of the year, i.e. when I have to...
by Minter Dial | Dec 19, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Collaboration, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Psychedelics, Responsibility
I am frequently invited to discuss and/or debate the potential to humanise artificial intelligence (AI). Will it be possible to imbue AI with human qualities, sufficient to dupe us or equal us? Worse yet, will it supersede us? And judging by the reactions in the...
by Minter Dial | Nov 15, 2023 | Ethics, Health, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Politics, Social Media
To what extent do you believe you know yourself? How closely do you think your outward-facing image is aligned with who you are down deep inside? From my own observations (starting with myself), being fully aware of who we are is generally an elusive task. As author...
by Minter Dial | May 16, 2023 | Health, Mental Health, Responsibility
In search of meaning There are several thought leaders who I follow, such as John Vervaeke and Jamie Wheal, who’ve also been writing that, as a society, we are experiencing a crisis of meaning. Many people either feel that their life is missing meaningfulness or...
