About Dorfmeister's Dream
a conceptual toolbox for communicators
Back in her prime, our cat Dorfmeister would spend many zen hours watching the Joburg city skyline. Just starting out as a writer, I was envious. I too wanted to watch the world, make notes, think about drifty things.
Twenty years and millions of words later, I’ve finally begun collating some of my thoughts on how the language and story choices we make affect our internal equilibrium, and our organisational lives.
Also, since June 2023 I've started taking a new genetic treatment for my Neuromuscular Disorder. So Dorfmeister’s Dream also includes reflections on this journey - and a few others too.
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Twenty years and millions of words later, I’ve finally begun collating some of my thoughts on how the language and story choices we make affect our internal equilibrium, and our organisational lives.
Also, since June 2023 I've started taking a new genetic treatment for my Neuromuscular Disorder. So Dorfmeister’s Dream also includes reflections on this journey - and a few others too.
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I last wrote an update newsletter some fourteen months ago. Inevitably, entering a new year has meant the bizarre ebbs and flows of the clock have been much on my mind. Where did all those weeks go? Will life keep on accelerating at this kind of double compounding Ray Kurzweil rate? Or is this just what being fifty plus years old feels like? Anyway… at the beginning of last year I decided to let...
Two centimetres
Jan 27, 2026
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Having taken over the reauthorisation process from the NGO, we received treatment approval for December 2024 to end May 2025 at the end of September this year, three weeks after receiving the obligatory neurologist’s report. Systemically, medical aids certainly border on tyrannical, with a strong Kafkaesque atmosphere. But our experience in this bizarre push and pull scenario over the last 18 mo...
Flickers
Dec 02, 2024
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They say you should stay in the moment, but what if it’s the moment that’s giving you trouble? This moment, and the one coming, and the one after that? This has been the thought pinging through my head over the last weeks. Eventually, I settled on simply trying to empty my head. Which has been surprisingly effective in terms of mental management. Even though reaching for meaning is a natural (...
Moments
Oct 02, 2024
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