Pride Month 2022 – Aphra Behn

June 11, 2022

Undervalued as an author till the 1970s, Aphra Behn is not only a feminist icon but her works around women’s sexuality are an exquisite example of sapphic poetry.

240 years after her death, Virginia Woolf will remember Aphra in her independence manifesto A Room of One’s Own:

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

She’s today’s profile on my Patreon.

books and literature

Osamu Dazai’s The Student and Other Stories

The collection I have, features three stories: The Student (Joseito), Applause (Kassai), and The Tale of Urashima (Urashimasan). They’re very different, not so much in mood (it’s Dazai Osamu after all) but in scope and purpose, and that makes this book a little weird. The

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books and literature

Carson McCuller’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafè

Carson McCullers (1917 – 1967) was an influential American novelist, playwright, and short-story writer renowned for her depictions of the spiritual isolation, identity struggles, and inner lives of outcasts in the American South. Her acclaimed debut novel is The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940),

June 13, 2026 9:00 am

technology

Strategy, Strategic Imagination and Ethics in LEGO® Serious Play®

Last week, I wrote a little thing on doing strategy with LEGO® Serious Play®, and I mentioned in passing the theoretical foundations of the method. This week, I’d like to dive deeper into that. To understand why LEGO Serious Play works the way it does,

June 12, 2026 9:00 am