Right View

Right View

In Zoomology and as Zoomologists we speak of finding the most helpful perspective. Of seeking out the most helpful perspective in…

SLEEP WELL

It’s well established and well documented that one of the key wellbeing and performance boosting activities is… Sleep zzzzzzz It’s…

Happy Easter

Happy Easter from the Zoom-Out team! We hope you and your family have a wonderful break! It doesn’t look like we will…

Read Obituaries

When I was young and living at home with my parents, we had the local newspaper delivered every day. I…

Steve Jobs as Zoomologist

Steve jobs as Zoomologist… Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help…

Attention Bubble [Tool]

Attention Bubble [Tool]

UNFINISHED Life often demands that we give our attention to unpleasant things. Like smoke that contaminates the air we breathe,…

Dead Cactus

Dead Cactus

Metaphors help us to make sense of the world. Metaphors are also useful thinking and communication tools which we can…

Martian Postcard

Martian Postcard

A writer friend of mine recently gave me a sheet of A4 paper and said, “Here, read this martian poem”. …

Pale Blue Dot

Pale Blue Dot

The greatest selfie ever taken? From a Zoom-Out perspective, certainly. Also the greatest distance – you’d need a very long…

The Blue Marble

The Blue Marble

This image literally caused the whole world to Zoom-Out. The Blue Marble is an image of the Earth made on…

Out of Time

Out of Time

A Zoomologists tale… From up here, Jim could see for miles. In fact, as the cliche goes, he could exclaim,…

BLAKE AS ZOOMOLOGIST

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the…

This Is Water

This Is Water

“This Is Water” is pure Zoom-Out. It is the title given to a commencement speech (and later a derived written publication)…

Cosmic Soup

Cosmic Soup

Cosmic Soup Cosmic soup did come from a tin, A tiny, teeny, tiny tin. And before that tin, there was…

Art as Zoom-Out

Maria Popova (Brain Pickings) on art as Zoom-Out: “[Art] unsettles us awake, disrupts our deadening routines, enlarges our reservoir of…

Sandsend

Sandsend Oceans new beat oceans past. Across the seas of moments lost. Walk with me in the here and now.…

Art of the Underground

Art of the Underground

The London Underground (rail network, aka Tube) is a source of dread and daily misery. However, it’s full of beauty…