BIBLIOTHERAPY 2022 - Twelve Books to Chart the Future of Mental Health

• Why do we suffer?
• To what degree is it unnecessary and avoidable?
• To what degree is it a natural part of the human condition?
• To what degree is it useful or even valuable?
• Where's the limit between personal and shared responsibility for mental health?
• Where should we draw those lines in the sand, both individually and as a society?
• How can the future of work play a part in human flourishing?
• How will we handle the mental health aftermath of this pandemic?
• After Covid, what's next?
• What do we need to do to help those of us who must face what's coming next?
• And most importantly, what can we do about it - now?

Those are some of the questions that occupy my mind and inform the work I do. My focus is on strategy and ops; in other words, what's the big picture and how do we connect that to what we do on a day-to-day basis?

As far corporate mental health organisations go, we're lucky because we can attract top-notch practitioners and meet demand. Still, I often reflect on the uncomfortable realities at the national/global level.

1. While general medicine has seen tremendous advances over recent decades, progress in mental health looks flat by comparison.
2. The sheer volume of people needing mental health support in our society eclipses the supply of available therapists. That gap continues to grow.
3. The economic burden also continues to spiral upwards — costs associated with mental illness are estimated to increase six-fold over the next 30 years.
4. Compounding these issues, we're seeing?the rise of the precariat?as AI and gig-work continue to displace traditional work. Simultaneously, eco-anxiety and?solastalgia?brought about by climate change and its fallout looks set to dwarf Co-vid. Let's be real, VUCA is exhausting!
5. The cruel irony is that as demand and urgency dovetail, the tendency is to divert more resources away from prevention and towards crisis management - further exacerbating the problem. It stands to reason then, that what we're doing as a society to tackle mental health is not future-fit.

So what are we to do?

At a global level, the economic case for investment in mental health is strong: every $1 invested in scaled-up treatment for depression and anxiety delivers a $4 return in better health and productivity (that's not including all other mental health conditions!). In line with that, a?recent poll of industry experts?suggested faster and more intense treatment delivered online is the most likely way forward.

While faster and more convenient treatment sounds fine, I'm not convinced accelerating treatment of symptoms either solves the scaling issue or stems the tide. I'm reminded the Henry Ford's famous quote, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

In 2017, the UN Special Rapporteur stated it more starkly: "Mental health policies and services are in crisis - not a crisis of chemical imbalances, but of power imbalances. We need bold political commitments, urgent policy responses and immediate remedial action.” Two years later, they reiterated the point "conceptualizing the determinants of mental health requires a focus on relationships and social connection, which demands structural interventions in society and outside the health-care sector."

In considering these quandaries, my hope is that we can get a sense of what the mental health landscape could look like in the years to come and what practical steps our organisation should take to align with that future (and maybe even nudge it). If we continue to get that right, we stay ahead of the curve, and so will the organisations that come with us on that journey. However, since all our health is connected, without a positive shift at a societal level, we're simply sandbagging against the floodwaters.

For that reason, I want to share with you the books that I found the most helpful and compelling over the last 12 months in attempting to chart that future path.

The questions I made at the outset are not new - they're as old as time. Every era has framed them differently and attempted to answer them accordingly.

How we frame challenges often mirrors, and is limited by, the Zeitgeist of the age. In the religious pre-enlightenment age, they spoke of demonic possession and exorcisms. In the industrial age, Freud garnered credibility by explaining that the workings of the mind were akin to cerebral hydraulics. In the age of computers, neuroscience captured the limelight with metaphors of wet-ware circuitry.

Each age promised a new dawn of understanding, and the public was enchanted by the hope of a "cure for everyone". As is often the case, once humans get a hold of a good idea, the tendency is to overdo it; in the first half of the 20th century, we were obsessed by dream analysis and relationships with our mothers, then in the last half of the century we were awash with medications. Meanwhile, as?reliable bio-markers remained elusive, many of the cures we'd hoped for didn't eventuate (some argue?our obsession with "cures" can be a red-herring). Nevertheless, they're all parts of the puzzle, and we learned a lot along the way — such is the march of human curiosity.

The Future Looks Fuzzy

The bio-psycho-social (and sometimes -spiritual) model is commonly regarded as a bedrock of good mental health. So if the 'bio', 'psycho' and 'spiritual' have each had their day in the sun, might we finally see the rise of the 'social'? Maybe, but that too would be committing the same error of the past. These are not independent pillars; they are the interwoven roots of wellbeing respond best to an enactive perspective.

There is reason for hope. Currently, there's far more talk of 'systems', 'complexity' and 'emergence' across many domains. So, predictably, it seems the study of mental health and well-being is shifting in that direction.

In just a few short years, any notion of a clean cartesian division of body and mind or internal and external has dissolved. The treatment of emotional trauma is?now focusing on the body; research into?interoception?is booming; we've discovered that the?ecosystems in our gut?profoundly influence the working of our minds; foremost?global authorities now call for greater focus on social determinants?of mental health; psychosocial risk management at work finally has an?official international standard;?psychedelic research is back in the lab?after a 50-year hiatus,?new empirically-based diagnostic models?are emerging alongside?non-diagnostic alternatives, we're addressing psychology's?WEIRD problem, the value of?lived experience?and?neurodiversity?is gaining mainstream acceptance, and notable names in the field are?challenging the metaphor of disease?used to describe mental illness.

In short, the conversation around mental health in the 20th century was primarily; individualised, pathologised, medicalised and above the neck. Now, extra layers of understanding are being added to the picture, and the traditional boundaries between schools of thought are blurring. The no man's land between them is often a messy and bitter battleground between experts.

"There is no uncontroversial language when talking about mental illness – and that includes the phrase 'mental illness'" — Nathan Filer, The Heartland

I'm unaware of any perfect metaphor to capture this new world disorder; hopefully, someone out there can enlighten me, but I can't shake the idea of us as mobile rainforests, whose stability and resilience is deeply interdependent on those around us and the world we inhabit (AKA?ecosystems within ecosystems of ecosystems with shoes).

If that all sounds a little new-age hippy-dippy to you, I hear you. Then again, at the boundaries of biomedicine, environmental logic already seems to be creeping in. The natural world, of which we are part, continually reveals itself to be more complex and remarkable than we could ever imagine. Science fiction is banal by comparison.

Now, to return to the mission at hand, I'm a big believer that the truth is in the whole, not in the part. Therefore, it's helpful to look at problems from multiple vantage points.

While this approach does lose some clarity and certainty, you do get to see things in 3D, as well as larger patterns and blind spots across disciplines. If you're lucky, you might connect the dots on things that others miss. Often those connections are mirages or aren't particularly valuable so 'strong opinions, loosely held' is sage advice. Nevertheless, once in a blue moon, something of value is revealed. Those moments are priceless.

Here's the list. Happy reading. Hope it's helpful for you.

THE BOOKS

Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta

This was my most gifted book of 2021; it's also the hardest to describe. It's a profound and passionate journey through Australian Indigenous knowledge systems, concepts of consciousness, culture and country. As I mentioned earlier, it's valuable to shake up our worldviews from time to time by looking at the world through different lenses, and as far as lenses go, this one is kaleidoscopic in all the best ways.?Plus, it's a cracking yarn.

Tyson is the founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University. With Sand Talk, he's opened the door for the rest of non-indigenous Australia (and the world!) to come and see the depth of wisdom that has accumulated over the last 65,000 years and how it can help all of us face the challenges to come. It's also an eye-opener into how Western knowledge systems have changed over time.

My key takeaway is this; if we want to build resilient societies, first we need to define what success looks like. In the last 100 years, we've done everything from double the average human lifespan to putting robots on other planets. Yet, if it only lasts a few centuries because we exceed our?ecological ceiling, can we really call it a success? That's not to dismiss what's been achieved nor romanticise the past; rather, it's about asking how we can use all available tools to create a sustainable future.?

"You have to move and adapt within a system that is in a constant state of movement and adaption. By extension, this is also how us-two might influence the system in sustainable ways—any attempt to control the system from a fixed viewpoint outside is a misaligned intervention that will fail."

Finally, while not explicit, Sand Talk reminds us that we can't make that forward transition if non-Indigenous and Indigenous cultures remain as divided as they are. Mending the rift requires respect and understanding, and I feel Tyson has written something here that can open minds and change hearts.

PS. Check out the?Audiobook; Tyson's got a smooth late-night radio DJ voice.

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry by Nathan Filer.

There's more than one pandemic going on right now - I consider 'mental health awareness' another. While I applaud the intent, an unintended consequence is that as clinical language enters common parlance, more and more of us are quickly becoming self-appointed diagnosticians without adequately understanding the nuances that lay beneath those labels. What's more, we can confuse 'talking about mental health' with 'doing something about mental health'. That frustrates clinicians, distracts the rest of us, and dilutes the language which is unhelpful at best, and dangerous at worst.?

I would like to see us move beyond awareness towards more meaningful action, but before we do, we need to really understand what we're talking about. That's what this book does exceedingly well.?

'People talk about independence,' he says. 'No wonder lads in hospital are scared of leaving if they're being told it's all about independence. I don't think it is. Teach them about interdependence.'?

I see this book as a natural successor to Johan Hari's?Lost Connections. The key difference is that Filer worked as a psychiatric nurse and researcher. Consequently, it's more intimate, nuanced, and balanced. Filer takes us through the myriad of perspectives from inpatients in acute mental health facilities to his own evolution as a psychiatric nurse, all while trying to navigate the shifting sands of policy, politics and best practice. It was initially titled?The Heartland: finding and losing schizophrenia;?however, the publisher reprinted it with this more provocative title. Either way, it's a top read. Get it!

Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath

Intuitively, we understand that prevention beats cure, so why do we get stuck in a cycle of reacting to crises instead of solving problems at the source? This paradox plagues individuals, businesses and entire health care systems.

In Upstream, Dan Heath has set out to pull apart the problem and provide a roadmap for anybody wishing to implement preventative and systemic strategies. What I found refreshing about this book is how clear and practical it is, especially considering the subject at hand. It also helps that it's stacked with real-world case studies.

"Downstream efforts are narrow and fast, and tangible. Upstream efforts are broader, slower, and hazier—but when they work, they really work. They can accomplish massive and long-lasting good."?

Admittedly, triggering system changes is never as linear or simple as described in this book. However, given that most of the other material I've read in this area is paralysing in complexity and density, this book will at least leave you with a sense that positive change is achievable — which is often the biggest hurdle. What's more, because it demonstrates that systemic issues can't be solved with a fragmented approach, it's an invitation for all of us to play our part.

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Are you the kind of person that never really found their special calling in life? Feel like you're a jack of all trades but master of none? Find yourself leaping from one area of interest to another; meanwhile, the world around you keeps telling you've lost your way? Then this book is about to make you feel a whole lot better about yourself and your prospects.

"Knowledge with enduring utility must be very flexible, composed of mental schemes that can be matched to new problems."

If you fit the profile above, then chances are you're a generalist. The 20th century didn't encourage people like us. It was a century of machines, primitive computing and?Taylorism, where measured and mechanical work aimed for predictability, efficiency, and honing a particular set of specific skills. That's the kind of world where specialists thrive. In contrast, the 21st-century knowledge work serves up a far more?wicked learning environment where there's rarely a clear path forward, the rules are unclear and everchanging which forces you to figure it out on the fly, and existing knowledge isn't always the best source to go on. That's where generalists have the edge.

"In a wicked world, relying upon experience from a single domain is not only limiting, it can be disastrous."

Generalists can do this because they build their knowledge on a broad scaffold of mental models which improves their analogical reasoning. It takes time to build that scaffold, so generalists are often late bloomers, but the value of all those varied conceptual frameworks begins to compound at a certain point. And it's not just in modern times where they do well; as Epstein shows, history is replete with examples across diverse domains where generalists outperform specialists and deliver breakthroughs in understanding. Case in point,?Nobel laureates are 22 times more likely?to have an aesthetic hobby than their peers. Generalists are knowledge foxes, so embrace your animal side — roam freely, listen carefully, and consume omnivorously.

Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference by Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli

There are indications of something disturbing happening in society right now:?we're becoming less compassionate.

Stephen Trzeciak MD, MPH and Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, JD, MBE are no-nonsense scientists with?a long-laundry list?of medical and law degrees, prestigious positions, decades of in-the-trenches critical care experience and a penchant for rigorous research.?Compassionomics?is the result of them setting out to test one overarching hypothesis in the most unbiased and methodologically strict manner possible: Does compassion matter? After years spent compiling and synthesising decades of research, and hundreds of high quality studies, their conclusion is as follows; compassion not only matters, it is one of the most pressing problems of our time.

"Once you see the pattern in the data, it is impossible to unsee it. It becomes impossible to ignore the effects that compassion (or an absence of compassion) may be having all around us every day."

Reading this book is like drinking from a fire-hydrant of research. It's basically a systematic review written in a way that non-academics can enjoy. While they focus almost exclusively on the physiological, psychological and financial impacts in health care settings, it's not hard to extrapolate from their findings to see how compassion, or lack thereof, profoundly impacts us all. It also addresses the surge of compassion fatigue and burnout seen in health care and what we can do about it. Given that the pandemic has been hellish for health care professionals and support staff, this information couldn't come at a better time.

If you work in an industry where 'care' for others is involved, you need to read this book. If think you work in an industry where care isn't important — I'd challenge that.

PS. Shout out to our very own Shawn Ashkanasy, who's pursuing his PhD on the impact of 'care' in organisations. Watch this space.

How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

"There is no consistent, physical fingerprint of emotion in our brains."?That might seem like an innocuous statement, but Lisa Feldman Barrett has pulled that thread and in doing so, unravelled decades of accepted science. It's such a disruptive idea that to bring it to the mainstream probably needed someone of her calibre (she's top 1% cited in psych and neuro).

It's hard to simplify Feldman Barrett's teachings because they are so counterintuitive and brain-bending that nothing short of reading the book can do it justice (it could also be that I'm just not up to the task). However, I can leave you with this; firstly, our day-to-day experience is a carefully controlled hallucination. Secondly, emotions are not reactions to the world around us. (Those two facts alone should be cause for pause.) Lastly, emotions are not universal between cultures or even between individuals, so the idea of reliably reading emotions on people's faces is built on bunk science. I'll let you consider the ramifications of that.

"Human beings are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits buried deep within animalistic parts of our highly evolved brain: we are architects of our own experience."

This book does more than tear down old ideas. It also provides insights into how we can gain a greater mastery of our emotions. In short, by understanding the mechanisms behind emotions and having better granularity in our descriptions of them, we can simultaneously enrichen our emotional experiences without being a servant to their whims.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice by Chris Chambers

Don't be put off by the name; Professor Chambers is a hard-nosed scientist on a mission to save psychology by improving the methodological rigour of research. That said, he doesn't pull any punches. "After spending fifteen years in psychology and its cousin, cognitive neuroscience, I have nevertheless reached an unsettling conclusion. If we continue as we are, then psychology will diminish as a reputable science and could very well disappear."?

Strong words indeed, but maybe they're not unwarranted; case in point, adding to the embarrassment of the now-famous?Replication Crisis, 9 out of 10 North American Psychology textbooks still?define statistical significance incorrectly. Those kinds of deficiencies don't bode well for the future. Fortunately, Prof. Chambers not only lays out a comprehensive and convincing roadmap of where research goes awry, he also brings solutions to the table. It's a bitter pill, but it's medicine nonetheless.?

This book is definitely for the technical crowd, so if you're about to embark on a career in research, check it out. If you're just curious, this book will do two things; firstly, it will give you an appreciation for just how damn hard it is to do good science on fuzzy topics like psychology. Secondly, it will sharpen your statistical literacy and critical eye when evaluating research.?

Oh, and one last thing about the replication crisis. Psychology isn't alone; it's present across many fields (ahem...?management research). To its credit, psychology is owning its mistakes and leading the way with?multiple efforts worldwide to improve?the quality of research?at pace.?

Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient: A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter [link to FREE Book]

Remember how I just mentioned psychology's replication problem? Well, maybe that's a clue to a much greater understanding of how our minds work and how we need to evolve our scientific methodology. You see, replication is expected in mechanistic systems, but less so in complex emergent systems — and our minds are starting to?look a lot more like the latter than the former. That's bad news for overly reductionist approaches, and it?sows the seed for yet another crisis in psychology. Fortunately, an impressive multidisciplinary team is getting ahead of it and has produced this visionary resource.

"Scientists and practitioners often lament the shortcomings of a certain methodology and try to improve it. However, if this improvement does not start from an update of the most fundamental basic assumptions about the reality to be investigated, the methodological improvements will not be very radical.

This is what happens when you get medical experts from a vast range of specialties working alongside philosophers of science to create a framework and clinical guidance which applies a complexity lens to human health. It's early days in this area, and public health doesn't exactly have a reputation for rapid innovation, so don't expect to see this kind of approach in public policy or hospitals near you anytime soon. Nevertheless, things do change — gradually at first, then suddenly. The future looks bright.

Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis. A field guide for decision-makers inspired by the Cynefin framework [link to FREE book]

So you want to get your head around this thing called complexity? Well, it's not for the faint of heart. My experience is that it very quickly becomes, well, complex - which is to say, it resists our natural tendency to simplify and neatly categorise. What's more, there's a whole new vocabulary to learn, and the experts often seem to be at war with one another. That might be tolerable for pure academics, but for the rest of us who actually want to get stuff done, it would be nice to have something a little more pragmatic and actionable.?

Fortunately, Dave Snowden (one of complexity's OG's) and the Joint Research Centre, European Commission, put together this great resource. It's clear, practical, with only a bare minimum of jargon. If you want to dip your toe in the water or even start experimenting in your organisation, I can't think of a better place to start.?

You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World by Michele Wucker

Earlier this year Ciaran Strahan asked me to help put together a program for the Risk Management Institute of Australia. Our aim was to help prevent the workplace vaccination mandates turning into an IR, ER and reputational nightmare for employers. Seeing how divisive the approach has been from the national level all the way down to the shop floor, it got me thinking about how we evaluate and communicate risk, not just at a population level but also at an individual level.?

"No matter where you work or what you do, you cannot separate your success and failure from your ability to respond to anticipated changes, what risks you are willing to take, how well you have created a safety net in case of unanticipated events, and how those attitudes complement or clash with the people around you."

Coincidentally, Michele Wucker, from the World Policy Institute just published this book. In it, she explores the oft-misunderstood world of risk from the global to the personal, via economics, anthropology, sociology, psychology and neurobiology. In it, she describes how our personalities and life experiences give us our own unique?risk fingerprint, which in turn shapes how we navigate under?risk umbrellas?through the complex?risk ecosystems?in which we live and work (enough risk buzzwords for you yet? - I'm not done).?

Wucker also shows why Black Swan events are all too often obvious?Grey Rhinos?(hello pandemic, hello psychosocial hazards at work). Therefore, at a minimum, good risk management requires good?risk empathy?and healthy?risk relationships. If you're an expert in the field, this book mightn't offer much to you that's new; however, for everyone else, it's a great primer.

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio

One thing we hear a lot of when it comes to VUCA is the unpredictability of things; however, Dalio's success at running the world's largest hedge fund offers a pretty solid counterpoint — all you need is massive, detailed data sets and an army of brilliant quants to crunch them for you. Sarcasm aside, it's a fascinating dissection of the rise and fall of empires, and it portends turbulent times ahead for us all in the not too distant future.

“I believe that the reason people typically miss the big moments of evolution coming at them in life is because they experience only tiny pieces of what’s happening. We are like ants preoccupied with our jobs of carrying crumbs in our very brief lifetimes instead of having a broader perspective of the big-picture patterns and cycles, the important interrelated things driving them, where we are within the cycles, and what’s likely to transpire.”

Why does a book about macroeconomics belong on a booklist about mental health? Because personal finance issues are?the leading cause of?stress?among Australian workers. Covid has turned the screws on that even further, and if Dalio's modelling is even half right, there's more to come. Thankfully, Dalio does offer advice on how to navigate the changes he sees coming. Plus, I personally find value in observing how some people operate with cool-headed logic amid overwhelming complexity. Finally, referring back to the lessons in Michele Wucker's advice on risk; being aware of what's coming and having a plan is arguably the best thing any of us can do because maintaining a sense of agency amid uncertainty is a sanity saver.

The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind by Jonah Berger

I've heard it said that knowledge is power - I'm not so sure. I've known plenty of people who knew plenty of things but were quite ineffectual. To my mind, the value of knowledge is not in the hoarding of it, but in the sharing of it and the degree to which we can help others achieve their goals.

Unfortunately for us all, rigorous science rarely makes for exciting reading - it's intentionally unemotional, thorough and cautious; meanwhile, conspiracies and clickbait are basically crack cocaine for our brains. As we've witnessed throughout the pandemic, that fact is capable of splintering societies. Thus, improving science communication is no trivial matter because in the face of climate change, poor science communication poses an existential threat. Experts who hoard knowledge do a disservice to the rest of us, but I am empathetic to their situation, fact is, communicating with emotions in mind can be an entirely alien experience for some. Plus, it's not just the experts who have something to offer the world; what about the rest of us? How many good ideas have you had that were dead on arrival because you couldn't get people on board with your idea?

"We think that if we just give people enough information, they'll come around. If we just share more evidence, list more reasons, or put together the right deck, people will switch. But just as often this blows up in our faces. Rather than shifting perspectives, people dig in their heels. Rather than changing, they become even more convinced they're right."

That's why Jonah Berger's latest book made it onto this list (despite the coercive subtitle grating on me). He's a professor of marketing at Wharton, and he's laid out a clear and concise model for connecting, communicating, and convincing others. If you're familiar with popular persuasion psychology literature such as Cialdini, you won't find anything new in particular; however, having it all in a single unified model is handy. Use wisely.

Books I'm Looking Forward To

The Matter with Things - by Ian McGilchrist

Ten years ago, McGilchrist delivered a masterpiece: The Master and His Emissary, The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Now, he's back with a massive tome that by all accounts surpasses his previous work. In it he aims to put into words 'that' which defies explanation; Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? Is the cosmos without purpose or value? Can we really neglect the sacred and divine?

By definition, it's an impossible task, but if anyone's up to it, I'd put my money on McGilchrist. As one?Oxford Prof described it,?"It's very simple: this is one of the most important books ever published [...] He is impeccably rigorous, fearlessly honest, and compellingly readable. Put everything else aside. Read this?now?to know what sort of creature you are and what sort of place you inhabit." Enough said.?

Cell Culture - A business novel about Bionic Organizational Design?by Clemens Dachs & Moritz Hormung?(Yet to be published)

There's an old saying, "all models are wrong, but some are useful". So, it begs the question, what model is most useful? If you'd like your organisation to be sustainable, adaptable and resilient, then it's hard to beat something with a track record of 2.7 billion years — the eukaryotic cell.?That's why Moritz and Clemens have spent years mapping the principles of cellular biology to organisational design.

(Spoiler alert, I just finished reading it. I was asked to give feedback on a pre-print. It's a fascinating concept that speaks to the biologist in me, so much so, I'm experimenting with implementing elements of it into Allos Australia's operations as we speak.)?

Evolution and Psychiatry: Clinical Cases by Henry O'Connell

There's a quote by evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky that sticks in my head "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution". It's for this reason that I think evolutionary psychiatry has a great deal to offer in helping broaden and deepen our understanding of why our minds behave the way they do. Here's hoping that O'Connell's book delivers on this. Also, if you're looking for a great overview of the evolutionary psychiatry, I highly recommend Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry by Randolph M. Nesse — reading that was a watershed moment for me.

Things I'm keeping an eye on in 2022

Strengthening the 'S' in ESG

The Liminal Web & the Sense-making crisis

Wishing everyone a less turbulent year ahead, and if it doesn't turn out that way, well, “smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”

Cheers, Ant.