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In the mid-1970s, when I began writing about life and career designing, I was

living in the USA and using American spelling and vocabulary. In the early 80s,

I was living in London and using British spelling and vocabulary. In the late

90s, I moved back to Scotland (where I lived for two years in the 60s) and I

have now adopted a wee bit of Scottish vocabulary.

Thus, the articles and newsletters and designs that I have created over the years

show a variety of spelling and vocabulary. One particular word that I often use

is spelled one way in American English and two ways in British English. So,

you may see an organisation become an organization (or vice versa) through no

fault of its own.

These writings are now available here at Serious Dreaming.com (along with

even more writings at WaltHopkins.com). Rather than attempt to bring all these

writings up to date, I have left them as they are – in the hope that you will find

them still useful – if occasionally puzzling or amusing.

You may notice that some of the stories sound familiar. That is probably because

you have already read that story elsewhere in my writings. Some stories are

good enough to tell more than once!

I do my best to give credit to the people I have learned with and to the people

who have shared their stories with me over the years. And in my own journals, I

have recorded hundreds of stories about my own learnings.

One of the people I give credit to is David Sparks at www.macsparky.com, who has

helped thousands of people – including me – become more productive by using

software technology more effectively.

Inspired by a similar statement from David, I want to say very clearly that

although it might technically be possible to create some of my writings by using

something called artificial intelligence that relies on an LLM (Large Language

Model), I have not used any kind of artificial intelligence for these writings.

I want to be clear that what you are reading here comes from my own natural

intelligence and from what I like to call my own LSC (Large Story Collection).

Onward!

© 2025, 2002, 1986, 1982, 1980 Walter Painter Hopkins