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That was the year that was...
Faced with the rapidly approaching end of 2023, I paused to reflect on everything that’s happened in my life. The result was a surprise,...

Scott Edwin Williams
Dec 8, 20232 min read
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Trespassing in Tiananmen Square
My friend and I had been traveling around China for 11 days, and it has been relatively stress free for me (ostensibly because she speaks...

Scott Edwin Williams
Nov 2, 20233 min read
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Privacy Policy
WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE AND ON WHAT GROUND WE PROCESS IT Personal data means any information capable of...

Scott Edwin Williams
Sep 18, 20238 min read
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Milestones
Anyone who’s listened to the podcast I do with my friend CJ (What's My Age Again?) will know I recently passed a milestone birthday. You...

Scott Edwin Williams
Jul 11, 20232 min read
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Adam Smith's Pet Rooster
In my last blog, I wrote about my experiments with AI illustration. I waxed lyrical about how it's helped me create appropriate...

Scott Edwin Williams
Jun 1, 20232 min read
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Doubling-down on Knowledge
In the twentieth century, two Americans made observations which highlighted the frightening growth of humanity’s collective learning. In...

Scott Edwin Williams
Apr 29, 20232 min read
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We’ve Never Had It So Good?
Doom. Gloom. Calamity. After everything humanity has endured in the last few years: global pandemics, moronic populist leaders, climate...

Scott Edwin Williams
Apr 12, 20235 min read
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May you live in interesting times...
The month since my last blogpost could hardly have been more consequential in the life of an author... Lightbulb Moments in Human...

Scott Edwin Williams
Mar 29, 20231 min read
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Lightbulb Moments in Human History is out now!
It's been a busy few weeks with the book launch and all... I have nothing to say this month, other than thanks to all the people who...

Scott Edwin Williams
Mar 9, 20231 min read
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After what seems like forever, it's LAUNCH TIME!
By the next blog, Lightbulb Moments in Human History: From Cave to Colosseum will have been released on an unsuspecting world! It's the...

Scott Edwin Williams
Jan 29, 20231 min read
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Can Humanity Survive the Great Filter (and Elon Musk)?
It’s pretty much impossible to agree with Elon Musk about anything nowadays. Since buying Twitter for $44 billion dollars, Musk has...

Scott Edwin Williams
Jan 14, 20235 min read
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Ch-ch-ch-changes
Nowadays, I find change easy. I haven’t always been this way, but the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune have, to a certain extent,...

Scott Edwin Williams
Nov 29, 20221 min read
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The Year of Living Dangerously Winds Down...
Well, it's been a hell of a year. Even after three years of a pandemic, and the deaths of both my parents not long before that, this year...

Scott Edwin Williams
Nov 15, 20221 min read
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Arrested development...
As I draft the final chapter of Lightbulb Moments in Human History: Peasants to Periwigs (book two of the series), I reflect on a...

Scott Edwin Williams
Oct 25, 20222 min read
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Nine Months of Living Dangerously
Sometimes I felt like this, but living dangerously paid off... I started this year on a low. A bout of glandular fever, constant...

Scott Edwin Williams
Sep 29, 20221 min read
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A Historical Moment
This week, we saw a moment in history – the death of a monarch. It wasn’t a lightbulb moment, for sure. It wasn’t a paradigm shift or a...

Scott Edwin Williams
Sep 12, 20221 min read
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Meeting Uncle Chris
Yesterday, I took my Year 6 class on an excursion to Lake Parramatta to meet with local indigenous people and gain an understanding of...

Scott Edwin Williams
Sep 8, 20221 min read
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One small step...
Welcome to my first blog post. I've wanted to write a blog for a while now, but because I've been slaving away at Lightbulb Moments in...

Scott Edwin Williams
Aug 28, 20222 min read
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