When I sat down to speak with intercultural communication expert Taruni Falconer, I expected to learn about culture. Instead, I found myself rethinking communication itself.
When I sat down to speak with intercultural communication expert Taruni Falconer, I expected to learn about culture. Instead, I found myself rethinking communication itself.
Most people think experience gives us answers, but what happens when our experience fails to answer our questions? When it makes it impossible to continue
Michael Henderson describes himself as atrocious with technology. So why has an anthropologist become surprisingly good at using AI? Michael traces the answer back to something
During the last few years of Dad’s dementia, when Mum and I would visit him in the Aged Care centre, there was a consistent pattern
Most people think experience is about knowing more. But what if its greatest gift is something else entirely? In this excerpt from On Experience, corporate anthropologist
My Dad died a couple of years ago after living with dementia. He went from someone who was sharp, practical and reliable to someone who seemed
We often expect our experience to predict what will happen. But, what if it doesn’t? I started practicing mindfulness to become calm and manage my
We often think experience accumulates into value automatically. But Rambo shows it doesn’t work that way. I recently rewatched Rambo: First Blood. Like many action
When two people are standing side-by-side watching the same event, is our experience the same? My brother loves trainspotting. And to be honest, I never
Most people think experience is all about having seen something before. But what if it’s not? In the first conversation in my On Experience series, I