One in three Australians is lonely and the young are worst hit. On habitus, detachment, and the bodily skill we're losing: reading one another.

A field note on love, from a table. On the food that is love itself, the space that forms between two present people, and a good life that was never a loved one.

Boomers built the architecture. Gen X ran the programme. Millennials did the maths. Gen Z is questioning the degree. One street. Australia, 2026.

There is a restaurant in Tokyo I would not be able to find again. We found it because I asked the concierge where the locals actually went, not where he would normally send a tourist. He understood the distinction, many don't. He smiled briefly, and wrote down three words in Japanese I could not read. What happened that Thursday evening in Shinjuku became the basis for this essay. That hospitality is not warmth. Not service or the charm, but it is the precondition for everyt

It was 2016. A glass-walled conference room, all clean lines and whiteboards and the faint smell of filtered air and corporate ambition. Perth spread out below through the window; the Swan River, the city, all of it arranged at a distance that felt, as it always does in these buildings, like a form of authority. Five of us around the table. And on the screen at the end of the room, live-streamed from Harvard Business School, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, one of the genuinely great mi

If design quality is abundant, taste is scarce. If writing quality is abundant, voice is scarce. If knowledge is abundant, wisdom is scarce. If intelligence is abundant, perspective is scarce.