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The results are the opposite to what we expect.. You can see this all around us in the season of festivities.We all have our own playbook, a list of traditions, menu, set of rituals.

If doing these things doesn’t make everybody happy we just need to do more of them, try harder, and put more effort in.. We get caught in the Devil’s Snare.. As Hermione Granger knew, the alternative is to stop struggling and bring light to where we are.One of the play-on-words used by counsellors is not to say “Don’t sit there, do something” but to say “.Don’t do something, sit there.

This is a time of year, but also a time in our history when the things we have been doing and are doing are not giving us what we want and need.There is little use in just trying much harder at doing the same things.

We need to pause, reflect on our purpose, try to see different perspectives, different routes forward; bring light to our present.. We need to try different things, do things in different ways, make new connections.. A few weeks ago I was involved in a conversation about pharmaceuticals.

Many of the drugs we take are synthesised ultimately from oil or use significant amounts of fossil fuels to produce.At the point of inquiry, we are trying to get that information loaded into that Chip..

When we are creating plans, we like to work in three dimensions from the very early part of the project.Chips help speed up the process, because we can move chunks of the design around very quickly and keep data associated with them.

We can do things like automate routing of certain utilities, based on the properties of the Chips.And that enables us to try lots of different options in a short amount of time.