Category: Work

  • Public speaking – don’t be scared

    From a base where I was receiving mental health support because I had a panic attack if more than one or two people came to speak to me and seek advice, eventually I spoke at the UN in Vienna and at conferences in Washington DC, Bordeaux, London etc. How did I do it? I explained…

  • The protagonist

    I think there’s only one path left. To be the protagonist in one of Dylan’s masterpieces. This is where I am. No chemo left. Palliative opiates. Standing on the gallows with my head in a nooseAny minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose Genius. Well, we knew that. Gally Maxwell15 October 2024 Reference:…

  • Leader, Follower, Individualist, Anarchist?

    Be wary of questions with binary answers: one thing or another. Advising investigators, I used to say in response to, for example, the thump of a file on my desk and a vague one line question: Don’t expect simple answers to complex questions. I’m a Skeptic. I doubt until the evidence is clear. I distrust…