Life, Death, Steve Jobs and Success: The Richest Man in the Cemetery?

By any human measure, Steve Jobs’ life was an incredible success. Co-founder of Apple, former owner of Pixar, a visionary who transformed computing, the music industry, mobile phones and much more. And then he died, aged only 56. Jobs was suffering from pancreatic cancer, and his death at such a relatively early age is deeply […]

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Homo narrativus and Pratchett

The latest edition of Discworld Monthly popped into my email inbox recently. One of the letters included various quotes from Terry Pratchett on stories and narrative, which are very interesting: “Narrativium is powerful stuff. We have always had a drive to paint stories on to the universe. When humans first looked at the stars, which […]

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