2017 in Review
Welcome to my third retrospective in four years. I didn't bother writing one of these for 2015 as I was glad to see the back of the year, but in hindsight I regret not doing so as it was a formative …
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A Few of my Favourite Things 2016
Personal review posts of the outgoing year are becoming more popular and I enjoy reading them, particularly those produced by my peers. However, when I wrote mine earlier this week I purposely left …
2016 in Review
2015 ended with me having a panic attack in a restaurant car-park, somewhere in South Bristol. It's not as bad as it sounds and in hindsight I put it down to that end-of-year, …
Getting Out of a Rut
Getting a cart out of a rut is hard. The sides are steep and it's hard to gain purchase. Just a slight turn to either side is ineffective. The wheels won’t catch; they just hit the sides & bounce …
Audience
Marc recently wrote a post called Disclaimer. Disclaimers, wordy intros, apologies: they’re all unnecessary. They water down the message. It resonated with me. I've already mentioned my tendency to …
My Life Reboot 18 Months On
TL;DR Years of a terrible diet, no exercise and not dealing with my underlying stress & anxiety problems left me a gibbering wreck. I was having panic attacks, experiencing physical pain and I was …
Are Slack Groups The New Twitter?
Around 2010 there was a spate of blog posts bemoaning the end of the comment thread. The claim was that Twitter was making us dumber. We were too busy, or too lazy, to spend the time to craft a …
The OneNote Handbook
2024 update: I never wrote this book. The OneNote guide that exists instead: Fundamentals, Customisation, Workflow Examples and Life Planning & Journaling with OneNote. As I alluded yesterday, I …
Turning up
Quite a few of my old narratives were well and truly crushed today: I am unfit I don't do running I'll never run a marathon These were stories I was telling myself. Turns out all I needed to do was …
The London Marathon
I remember watching the first London Marathon on the TV as a kid in 1981. It was a big deal. This was back when we only had 3 channels on the TV. The BBC gave it rolling coverage for well into the …