Be Polite
As an engineer I am probably the last person that you should listen to on the subject of manners or emotional intelligence. If you do want to read a really great post on politeness and manners, go …
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Unoriginal
It can feel daunting to come up with ideas for things to write about because someone else has already written about it before and it's probably too obvious anyway, right? Wrong. It's OK to write about …
Email Course - rough draft
Today I'm starting to re-purpose old content into an email course aimed at designers and front-end developers. I'll work on this in the coming days, for instance they need top and tailing, and all …
Sketching out product ideas
Today I'm writing with a work hat on and am sketching out some product ideas. From these I may then expand them out into one or more long-form service offering pages for my website. Premise My company …
A Start
All the thoughts I'm slightly cheating here. The first day of Marc's 30 Day Writing Challenge started when I was sunning myself on a lounger in Morocco (a cheeky 4 day break during Easter) and there …
Singing is Good For You (and Me)
Sorry about the hat More catching up. Yesterday - Saturday - I got to bed at 3:40am after driving across the country from Gatwick; I was dog tired to say the least. Even so, at 8am I jumped out of …
Changing Your Internal Narrative
It is widely recognised that as humans we all have a sort of split personality. In our brain at its core, the limbic system, we have our lesser evolved chimp. This deals with emotions or feelings and …
I Believe
I've been rather introspective the last couple of years. I've purposely kept my head down and have focused on my health, my family and my business; the most important stuff. Whilst I have stuck my …
Dear Conference Organisers, Please Hire Me
TL;DR this is an open letter to people organising conferences in 2016 who are looking to fill slots on webbish subjects, tending towards software development, that would be both palatable and valuable …
The Try Before You (Properly) Buy Standing Desk
Standing only office set-up Standing desks have been fashionable for a while. When I say a while I mean that they are such old news that it's now become fashionable to migrate away from them instead. …