+ The machine writes the essay, composes the music, drafts the building. On demand, for the price of a prompt.
The one thing it cannot counterfeit is a life it was changed by.
Creativity was never the dessert. It was always the infrastructure.
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Yesterday, Sir David Attenborough turned 100 — eight decades behind the lens, a voice that has carried us from the rainforest canopy to the ocean floor. He has been a beacon for our planet and for every living thing upon it. The greatest ambassador life on Earth has ever known. Thank you, Sir David.
He knew it would take him. He fought anyway — not for himself, but for every family who’d face the Beast next.
That was Neale Daniher.
I had the honour of interviewing him in 2017. Today we lost him. But the army he built marches on. Vale, champ. 💙 #FightMND
Sitting with the news of Professor Richard Scolyer AO’s passing. He and Georgina Long took melanoma from a death sentence to largely curable — thousands are alive because of it. But it’s his boundless love of life and selflessness I’ll remember.
Thank you, Richard. With gratitude. Vale. 💙
Tonight, my words travelled from Melbourne to Jakarta — English on my lips, Bahasa on the screen.
Congratulations to the LaSalle College Jakarta Class of 2026.
The world is your classroom. Go create the future. 🎓
THRESHOLD
The tools forming our young are owned, and ownership is never neutral. A harvest grown on enclosed ground is not flourishing. It is yield. Stand at the threshold. Ask whose land it is.
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Back on Mathew Green's The Art of Teaching after 3+ years.
We talked human-centred learning — education shouldn't just inform, it should transform — and the work at LCI Melbourne.
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Can the Real Creative Please Stand Up?
A sold-out room, one big question: what does creativity mean when AI can produce more than ever?
Thanks Dave King — the busywork is gone, what’s left is the real work. Bold thinking. Gut instinct.
Proud to host TEDx Melbourne at LCI Melbourne.
A sentence carved into a wooden play structure.
Four Marist sisters in gangland Guatemala City.
Sixteen years of carrying what I saw there.
Essay 21 of #PermissionIsTriumph is the moment I claim it: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod...
Some places do not lift. They shift.
Borobudur did that to me. The Great Wall. Florence. The boat pulling from Cinque Terre.
My new essay is about what beauty actually does to the person who receives it.
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