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Originally circulated on 8 May 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 4 Greetings from  day 42 of lock down. Over the past two weeks I have received a number of worthy submissions for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ which I am thinking about. However because 42 is so significant I am assertingContinue reading “Ruminations on the precautionary principle & lock down”

Originally circulated on 5 June 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 3 Greetings from  day 70 of lock down. Over the past two weeks a number of people sent me the link for the free movie/documentary, “Planet of the Humans” and suggested this as a suitable topic for  Ruminant Pink Friday’sContinue reading “Ruminations on Planet of the Humans, criticism and the Malthusian debate”

Originally circulated on 29 May 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 4 Greetings from  day 63 of lock down. Over the past week I have received no worthy submissions for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™. I think it is fair to say that we now live in a period of unprecedented uncertaintyContinue reading “Ruminations on uncertainty, the yearning for certainty, mental health, false certainty and fragility”

Originally circulated on 12 June 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 3 Greetings from  day 77 of lock down. During the course of this week one of my colleagues (who shall remain nameless) alerted me to an intriguing  and seditious piece of research on the topic of whether CEO pay correlatesContinue reading “Ruminations on CEO pay and its link to company performance”

Originally circulated on 3 July 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 3 Greetings from  day 98 of lock down. Events in my own life this week spurred this week’s submission. This week’s topic is more self-indulgent and narcissistic than is usual for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ .  Apart from being self-indulgentContinue reading “Ruminations on Blood Clots, Ageing and Being Mortal”

Originally circulated on 17 July 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 3 The inspiration for today’s Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ submission comes from the Economist and is to do with objectivity and euphemisms. https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/07/15/how-objectivity-in-journalism-became-a-matter-of-opinion?utm_campaign=the-economist-today&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=2020-07-15&utm_content=article-link-1. Objectivity is defined as the fact of being based on facts and not influenced by personal beliefsContinue reading “Ruminations on Objectivity & Euphemisms”

Originally circulated on 24 July 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 3 Greetings from  day 119 of lock down. The inspiration for today’s Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ comes from the resurgence of populism and identity politics in the world. What exactly is identity politics? Identity politics is a term that describes aContinue reading “Ruminations on Identity, Identity Politics & Who are you?”

Originally circulated on 21 August 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 2 Greetings from  day 147 of lock down – now level 2. Lock down level 2 started this week and this has enabled me to buy restorative beverages which help immensely with creativity. This week my inspiration for Ruminant PinkContinue reading “Rumination on doubt, conviction and Brent Scowcroft”

Originally circulated on 18 September 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 2 Aweh from  day 175 of lock down – now level 2 but soon to become level 1. An appropriate greeting for Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ henceforth is “Aweh”. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=aweh. This is a South African multi-purpose slang term often associatedContinue reading “Ruminations on Green Hydrogen”

Originally circulated on 2 October 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 189 of lock down – now level  1. Some eclectic Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ thoughts in no particular order. Firstly a quick continuation of appropriate South African slang for our times: Dog het gedog hy plantContinue reading “Ruminations on feathers, punk accountants, Krav Maga & a recap on Parkinson’s Law of buildings.”