It's relatively easy to know another person. To see their flaws, their lovable quirks, their irritating habits. And from all that, to like them, dislike them, shrug and turn away. As though we're in a place to to do something more than just accept them for what they are.
     It's one thing to remember that we could be wrong.
     It's another to remember that we don't know the whole story.
     But it's also important to remember who's doing the seeing. I believe it to be true that what we see in other people is what we have in ourselves. We can't recognise qualities that we don't possess, but we can spot (for example) selfishness because we know it only too well.
     What parts of ourselves do we find in others, and how should we deal with them?
     If it's ours to deal with them at all.

Our structures don't work any more, do they? We have an economy in which, sooner or later, nothing is affordable. States run out of money but keep spending. Everything costs Billions. Nothing improves; nothing ever gets fixed. The more high-profile the commitment to fixing things, the more chronically unfixable they remain. Debate replaces direction; we discuss everything but fail to notice that we never reach a conclusion.
     There's a bird on my bird table. Down in the harbour, the water is choppy with the fresh wind. The bushes, are moving, greener now than they were even a few days ago. It's Monday, a new week. This is my Monday, this fresh, hazy day. The world is real, and there are seagulls.

We spend vast amounts of money on Artificial Intelligence. Our schools are failing. We spend vast amounts of money on Virtual Reality. The climate is changing. Who are we?
     Back through history, innovation has always been surprising. It has almost always been dismissed by defenders of the status quo, and it has never run in a predictable straight line.
     There is a predictable straight line from the garages where Microsoft and Apple began, to the "tech incubators" of today. Banks have Innovation Departments, led by bankers with <Global Head of Innovation> on their business cards.
     I wonder if the next life-changing, world-changing innovation will be technology at all.