Accounting for Humanity

I always struggled with my plans for this part of the website. It feels important to have the blog but, as a self publishing platform it felt “messy”. I have always wanted a place designed for reading articles of literary pursuits whilst having a less formal area for all of the other adventures that occupy my life.

In the beginning, I certainly tried to have them coexist here in the blog but I never liked the result, I wanted my more formal writing together and separate from these more em… “unhinged” thoughts.

So when I discovered Substack my writing dreams were met. It is a platform designed to create short to long-form written content and it offered a neatly “all in one place” location for my publishing.

So, while I will occasionally post publishing updates here (as I am doing now), I can now centre the blog on less formal writing (reflections of events/experiences etc) and Substack will be my self-publishing repository.

So with that in mind, here’s a breakdown of my recent Substacking.

My thoughts on why AI will not end accounting

My first foray into Substack is an opinion piece on why accounting will survive AI. While discussing the future of accounting as a human profession, it is interesting to also consider that the research that prompted this opinion would not have been possible without historical information. Keep that in mind the next time someone tries to claim that history is not valuable…

An (over)thought Piece on Star Trek and Society

I shall be honest, it is probably better to read this one than ask me to recount it!

Finding Accountants in the land of the dead

This is one of what will be many pieces expanding into my Taphophile project. I do hope/aim to generate some “peer-reviewed” publications in this project but, at this stage I am focusing on self-publishing to allow me (and my readers) to fully explore those very intangible ideas without being confined by the boundaries and structure of peer-reviewed works. These “bite-sized” articles will introduce some of my thoughts, reflections and discoveries as I peek beyond the veil of the living and the dead.

The Dream project: Taphophile’s work of Academic Fiction

This is something very special to me. This I admit grew from my first academic paper rejection. My feedback told me that 1. I did not make my “vision” clear enough and 2. the reviewers pretty much HATED my work. This made me realise that if I really wanted to freely create something that embodied the manner in which my mind combines art and academia, I needed to do it myself (i.e., self publish). It is not intended as a self indulgent or embittered “no one gets me or is good enough to see my vision”, honestly I felt the feedback for my rejected paper was fair. What this is though is a recognition that, if I take such a passion project through a peer-review process, I will emerge deeply hurt and lose the passion that drives this idea. I am too early in the academic career process to do something like this formally.

Therefore, “The Ledger of Death” combines my undying want to write a story and share my research into accounting’s influence on life, death, and death’s architecture. The tale follow’s the journey of a newly minted soul, looking to understand what on earth accounting has to do with getting to afterlife. Guided by Charon the ferryman, we will answer the question of how does accounting connect life and death?

The Weird idea of Gender Identity: Book Review

After a particularly interesting/though provoking issue of the British Library’s “Tales of the Weird” I got to pondering how society perceives what it is to be a woman in the Victorian Era (and how that links to a recent paper I read on women in accounting)

Last, but not least, a quick ponder on an unexpected discovery in the Archives

If you are short on time, then this quick little entry makes yet another connection between accounting and death.