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Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries. | Grammar School educated, specialising in Maths & Sciences at A level, going on to Aeronautical Engineering and continuing the techy "STEM" trajectory into aircraft design and manufacture and then into much broader engineering contracting in energy & process capital facilities industries. | ||
I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day. | I always identified as "Humanist" but it was a mid career masters degree course in 1988/91 focussing on the human "culture" aspects of managing organisational change that initiated the switch in focus from STEM technicalities to the psychology of the human predicament in the cosmos. It wasn't until 9/11 gave "the west" a kick-in-the-pants that I was moved to make this a serious research topic thereafter to this day. Within months of staring this research a statement by Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning Physicist I happened to meet in Cambridge, that "''Eastern thinking was more fundamental than physics''", set an important direction to my research - and turned this techy nerd into a "born-again" reader of literature of all kinds. | ||
Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research. | Married to Sylvia since 1981, father of two (boys) grandfather of one (boy), I/we have been fortunate to live and work around the world, something I recognise as a massive contribution to my understanding of human culture and the planet we inhabit. [https://www.psybertron.org/archives/16498 My worldview remains humanist], massively evolved and reinforced by my experience and research. | ||