🛫 Over and above randomly moving about the globe 🛬

Today I want to talk to you on a different level, about CBI itself. We'll get to Vanautu further down. This will be longer than usual, and hopefully will make you think, so grab a cup of your favourite beverage and settle in….. Thoughts on CBIMany have seen...

Your situation and “normalcy bias”

Famous American writer Ernest Hemingway in his book “The Sun Also Rises” answers the question “How did you go bankrupt?” this way: “Gradually, then suddenly.”It's a great display of what psychologists call “normalcy bias”I found a good...

🌊🏊 Are your flippers on?

Yesterday, I was watching a snorkeler spearfishing in front of our house.The wind was onshore and strong, so the waves were bigger than usual. He was keeping just outside the danger point where the waves broke over the coral.I thought to myself, “He's game,...

Are you a Polymath? ⊛

I discovered that I am a “polymath” in a very recent email. A polymath, for those not familiar with the term, is someone that has a wide and diverse set of knowledge spanning many topics. It confuses people because they don’t know whether to think of...

🌈 The French Connection

Can you imagine what happens when a diverse group of people are ruled as a colony by two major colonial powers at the SAME TIME? In this case, the New Hebrides was controlled as a colony jointly by Britian and France from 1906 through to independence in 1980.And that...