I've updated my licence: Creative Commons CC BY-ND 4.0

Moving up the open tree. Excerpt from The Noun Project / CC BY 4.0.

After much consideration, I have decided to move my Creative Commons licencing "up the open tree". I will now use the CC BY-ND 4.0 licence, as follows:

Le Flâneur Politique by Dr Michael de Percy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://www.politicalscience.com.au.

Previously, I used the CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 AU licence, but it seems unnecessary. Yet I am reluctant to go further up the tree just yet. I might hang out here for a little while and see how that goes!

My comments on NBN on ABC News 24's "The Business"

Photo: Rob Pearce/Flickr CC BY 2.0

My comments on NBN tonight on The Business @abcnews https://t.co/TqWY3011qk @unicanberra @UCIGPA #nbn

— Michael de Percy (@madepercy) September 8, 2017

My comments on NBN, Radio National's Business PM yesterday: https://t.co/7tzSKuAZVA @unicanberra @UCIGPA

— Michael de Percy (@madepercy) September 9, 2017

Easily the best podcast I have ever heard...

Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Photo by Osama Amin via Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0

The more I read, the more it all begins to converge. The same happens with listening to podcasts. I've been getting through the great books, including various religious texts, and listening to podcasts on my commute has been enlightening.

I am resigned to hearing the commentary on some books I am yet to read, even though this can colour my first reading, much like reading the book after one has seen the movie.

But this recent podcast from the Art of Manliness brings a number of ideas together in an interesting way.

Jordan B. Peterson is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Apparently he is somewhat controversial. But aside from all that, this was hands down the best podcast I have heard so far. 

The Epic of Gilgamesh. The Bhagavad Gita. The Book of Genesis. The battle of ideologies. Jung, Nietzsche, myths, literature, history. Suggested reading. Check out the podcast:

The idea of power versus competence is exactly what I needed to hear...