“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know…” Donald Rumsfeld During my surgical lifetime probably… Read more

“the world is not a right angle…” Zaha Hadid When you blog a lot, it is easy to end up down quite a few rabbit holes. So it was that recently I was reading an email spruiking the 2026 Helsinki Design week, which happened to open last week. Kari Korkman the curator of said event… Read more