What I’ve Been Reading

Some books inform you. Others transform you. Dean Yates’s memoir Line in the Sand does both, and it does so with a raw honesty that will leave you profoundly changed. Yates spent 26 years as a journalist with Reuters, much of that time in some of the world’s most dangerous places. He covered the 2002 […]

I’ve just finished Defy by Dr Sunita Sah, and it’s one of those books that quietly rearranges how you see everyday interactions. This isn’t a book about being loud, rebellious, or dramatic. It’s about something far more familiar and far more uncomfortable: how easily we slide into compliance, even when it cuts across our values.

I’ve just finished Defy by Dr Sunita Sah, and it’s one of those books that quietly rearranges how you see everyday interactions. This isn’t a book about being loud, rebellious, or dramatic. It’s about something far more familiar and far more uncomfortable: how easily we slide into compliance, even when it cuts across our values.

Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer brings her investigative journalism skills and wicked sense of humour to explore AI’s past, present and future. Spicer uncovers the inherent biases the way AI works, as well as in the history of AI and who controls its future. She translates the abstract notion of systemic bias into concrete

There is a lot of noise about autism at the moment: claims, counterclaims, politics, and misinformation. But confusion about autism is not new. The boundaries of what it means, and the tension between those searching for a cause or cure and those seeking real support, have been contested for decades. In NeuroTribes, Steve Silberman traces

Brené Brown’s new book updates some of her work on daring leadership, and includes excerpts from others’ work (including Adam Grant, Ginny Clarke, Amy Webb, Sarah Lewis, Dan Pink, Aiko Bethea, and Abby Wambach) relating to the two main themes: (1) the role paradoxical thinking plays in understanding ourselves, the people around us, and the

This new book by Robert C. Bordone (negotiation professor) and Joel Salinas (behavioural neurologist) is essential reading for everyone! It asks the question “Have we lost the capacity to engage constructively in conflict?”, exploring what this might look like, potential causes, and most importantly, strategies to help people re-engage. The authors define conflict resilience as

I’ve been able to avoid much of the controversy around AI, just playing around with it for fun when I’ve had some spare time, until recently. However, two things really piqued my interest. One was working with iResolve on an AI Conflict Coach (which despite my dubiousness, turned out to be astonishingly good).  The second

While this article is about the development of mediation as a field in the U.S. most of the points made apply equally to the Australia context. Welsh describes the idealised introduction of mediation in the 1970s as a “democracy-and-self-determination-enhancing, social justice ethos” which then became institutionalised into a process aimed solely at getting parties from

This book is a memoir spanning generations of the Kwa family on different continents (including Australia where Mimi Kwa was born and lives).  It’s a book about culture, family and conflict.  At times shocking, at other times heart breaking, and in between sometimes hilarious, the book covers the challenges of conflict across families, generations and