Ivor Williams

I'm trying to zero in on why Dying for Sex is the best thing I've seen in years that manages to make the dying experience feel not entirely awful - tragic, painful, existential - but not awful.

Any thoughts?

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

So enjoyed this chat with @ivorwilliams.info and @elizabetholdfield.bsky.social 💚

Lovely! Thanks for sharing

Ecological approaches to technology/innovation are a way through that conundrum surely?

Thinking about Lo-TEK
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I'd love to go back for some NP trips, but I feel *exactly* the same way I did after the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001/03. The US is a hostile state, the real rogue state, and sadly that beautiful country - with lovely people inside it - is just not a place I'd like to go for a while.

How to die (and live) well - with Ivor Williams - The Larger Us Podcast Why do those of us in western societies find it so difficult to face the prospect of our deaths, or to grieve collectively for experiences of shared loss? How does unprocessed collective grief - for i...

Loved talking with @alexevansuk.bsky.social and @elizabetholdfield.bsky.social on The Larger Us podcast. Facing our mortality together isn't just about confronting death. It's about unlocking a deeper appreciation for life. Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/1738464/epis...

Yeah, sounds about right for how I'm riding the wave...

Thanks so much everyone who's gotten in touch. I'm keen to speak to just 2-3 more people.

If you - or someone you know - has arranged a direct cremation for a loved one, I'd really like to hear how it went for you and your family & friends. Ta to @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social et all for the share!

Have you arranged a direct cremation for a loved one? I'd love to talk and hear your experience.

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yeah proto-gorpcore appeared 2005/6 in Glasgow with the smoking ban I reckon

What the hell is THIS? 😷

The adventure of the hero — the adventure of being alive.

Minor to major key change always felt like the optimistic perspective of the 90s/00s. Maybe it sounds dissonant to randomly go upbeat in a song?

UK watching Germany go fash again

Grief > Grievance

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists

LINTILLA:
...And do you know what it consists of?

ARTHUR DENT:
Rock?

LINTILLA:
But it isn’t rock.

ARTHUR DENT:
Well what is it then?

LINTILLA:
Shoes.

ARTHUR DENT:
What?!

LINTILLA:
Shoes. Billions of them! An entire archaeological layer of compressed shoes.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Even Prince William doesn’t attend church – it’s time for a new Reformation | Simon Jenkins The UK is now a secular nation and the Church of England should no longer be one of the central pillars of state, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Some important points from Simon Jenkins here - but misses what I see as the most important point of how we steward not just the buildings, but also a living spiritual culture. Secular community spaces are necessary but not sufficient for our spiritual health

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Death haunts the workplace more than we realise... But its not just healthcare or dangerous jobs - even subtle reminders of mortality shape how we make decisions at work.

It changes how we hire.
It changes how we judge.
It changes how we lead.
It changes who we trust.

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oh BOY. I've loved this house in Camden foreevverrrr. I can't tell you how often I've fantasised about its interior as I go past it. It's such a rare beauty. A little bit of Kyoto or Santa Cruz in London

I don't often get house envy, but *damn*.

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Holy smokes Joseph

Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism

Can't fault Olly for this, but I LOVED the Brutalist.

It's the love child of The Fountainhead and There Will Be Blood.

Great cinema, in other words. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

Saw first hand the lack of systems thinking - and tbh even user-centred thinking - within scale-ups. Maddening when the problems are so complex.

Think the challenge is getting teams/execs/decision makers to value the squishy human part of systems (rather than mechanistic engineering part)

“How shall you live in the face of this situation over which you, seemingly, have no control?

Sustaining the energy, the focus, the fierce commitment to growth and learning is difficult but critical to the depth and dignity of our journey. For each of us, the turn of the wheel of time brings us over and over to the question:

temptations of lassitude and avoidance. But even the darkest of hours is part of the richness of this journey we call our lives. No matter what happens to us “out there,” so much more is asked of us from within.

Feeling grateful for the words of James Hollis today, this month, this time, this era we’re in:

“Sooner or later each of us is obliged to traverse the savannahs of suffering. Sooner or later evil makes its way into our lives, along with loss, defeat, and the seductive…

For something that reaches the places New Year’s resolutions don’t, let @ivorwilliams.info guide you in reflecting on mortality

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