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QWAN - Quality Without A Name
The many and varied thoughts of Martyn Foster
Welcome to QWAN - Quality Without A Name. This is the blog of writer Martyn Foster who embodies the spirit of QWAN through producing high quality pieces of writing without being a household name.
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Martyn Foster
- Nov 18
- 4 min
Spirit of the law vs letter of the law
Applied with VARying results.
Martyn Foster
- Nov 4
- 3 min
Remember, remember the 5th of November…
You can kill people, but not ideas.
Martyn Foster
- Oct 28
- 4 min
Addressing the anxious elephant in the room
Because the longer anxiety is ignored the bigger it gets.
Martyn Foster
- Oct 21
- 4 min
Fantasy and Reality – Part II
“I wish I was like you, easily amused.”
Martyn Foster
- Oct 14
- 4 min
Fantasy and Reality
Where one stops and the other begins is becoming harder to tell.
Martyn Foster
- Sep 23
- 3 min
Does immoral action make an object itself immoral?
How much power does consumer sentiment really have in defining business ethics?
Martyn Foster
- Sep 16
- 4 min
Meaning and Work
Seeking fulfilment with it, from it and everything in between.
Martyn Foster
- Aug 19
- 4 min
Ethical dilemmas in our economic trading partners
An exercise in moral idealism vs practical reality, and in some cases, necessity.
Martyn Foster
- Aug 12
- 4 min
Outright purchase vs subscription based access
Will ownership become a thing of the past?
Martyn Foster
- Aug 5
- 4 min
One does not simply “adult”
It’s probably easier to walk into Mordor!
Martyn Foster
- Jul 29
- 3 min
A problem of distribution or production?
Have we reached a point where we have enough?
Martyn Foster
- Jul 22
- 4 min
The gift and curse of intelligence
With superior processing power and cognitive ability comes great responsibility and isolation.
Martyn Foster
- Jul 15
- 4 min
Overwhelmed and Exhausted
Why we aren’t designed to care about so many things.
Martyn Foster
- Jul 8
- 2 min
Up is down
Well that’s just maddeningly unhelpful. Why are these things never clear?
