Episode 25

Ep. 25: Fighting the realities we create

Today’s episode is all about empathy and the realities we create and then live in. Listen to a voice-acted story that I wrote called “Watching the wheels” and come with me on questioning how we perceive ourselves so that we can better understand how others perceive us. Maybe we can live a less conflict driven and unhappy life along the way!

Thanks in this episode to:

* The Chapter Chasers writing group who gave me lots of feedback

* Dr. Erwin Warkentin for his constructive criticism

* The wonderful office of Supermetrics Singapore and all the beautiful people that inhabit it, as much was recorded there while on the go and especially my colleague Viktor Djupsjöbacka for his patience.

The AI work on this piece was through ElevenLabs


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Hosted by tech leader and storyteller Duleepa Wijayawardhana, this podcast explores the intersections of technology, fiction, and human adventure. Words create the worlds we live in—join us for weekly conversations that spark your imagination.

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Duleepa Wijayawardhana

It started with late nights, glue sticks, and a university newspaper / radio.

That early obsession with how words reach people took me from student journalism to a career spanning the globe. I’ve gone from designing newspapers and having radio shows to building systems at BioWare (yes, the RPG legends), managing data at MySQL, and now leading tech at Supermetrics in Helsinki.

But at my core, I’m still that geek who believes writing is just code for the human mind.

While a computer chip executes code exactly, your imagination runs stories based on your own unique wiring. Tales under the cat tree is where we run those programs together. Whether we're exploring the fiction that inspires us or the tech that defines us, my goal is to spark your imagination and—most importantly—never make you go "meh."

Words create the worlds we live in. Let's explore them.