Kieran Doherty

“Why am I here?” “ Why are we here?” “What’s the point of it all?” One perspective seeks to address these questions through this statement: The meaning of life is to give life meaning.* Holding all sarcasm at bay, what does that statement mean? At a fundamental level the statement is about choice and responsibility. Specifically, […]

Here we stand. Nearing the end of a year tagged ‘2022’, yet one that has followed many thousands of years for our species. A tiny fraction of time in the grand scale of our planet and harbouring galaxy, yet momentarily, the only time we have. What could we do with it? Simply existing is probably

Last month’s edition we finished on the possibility that we are the first civilisation to have emerged victorious (i.e. still existing) from an evolution gauntlet (e.g. the Great Filter).  Beating all odds and challenges from barren, rocky star systems, to seemingly benign single cell existence, to do-or-die multi-cell collaborations, to discovering the means to use

To start, let’s unpack our understanding of scale. The scale of our environment is something that is often hard to fully grasp. Everyday we’re exposed to numbers of varying magnitude and it seems we sometimes over simplify them to ease the workload on our brains. A great example is the difference between tens, thousands, millions,

This article might be a bit boring, but it has an important part to play. And if you’re still here, you probably want to find out just how boring boring is. That’s the spirit! 😁 😕Want some context? Check out the previous article here! Language is one of our greatest assets. It enables us to exchange

This could get a little weird 😁 Welcome to the very first article for The Potential We Have. Why? Why that title? Why a newsletter? And what’s with the logo? Well firstly, through all the roles I’ve had, the work I perform and the content I produce, there has been a little piece that was