Twelve serious books about leadership, management and business The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Made To Stick: Why some ideas take hold[…]
Every year I make some resolutions, and sometimes they stick and sometimes they don’t. (2014: 20% success rate, 2015: 0% success rate. 2016: at best, 33%, 2017: 50% 2018: 37.5%) In line with what I[…]
Today I read Caged Skies, which is not a book about Space Marines and therefore an exception to almost everything else I’ve read this year. It’s being made into a satire about a Hitler Youth[…]
Today I got up early and walked to thr inaugural New Scotland Blood Bowl tournament, stopping on the way to buy a doughnut and a cup of dreadful coffee from Tim Horton’s. The tournament was[…]
I spent all morning doing very little at all, taking advantage of the kids being out to catch up on my indolence.
We drove back from Kentville to Dartmouth today, a journey of about 100 km, and then I fell asleep when we got back, exhausted by the concentration of driving. Or because I didn’t have enough[…]
I read two more Space Marine novels this week, as I’d been gifted all that spare time for reading by Delta Airlines. Vengeful Spirit is partly a story about some of the good guys infiltrating[…]
We drove to my sister in law in Kentville today, which necessitated renting a car. The only vehicles available in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia were enormous SUVs, so we drove one of those, a bus-sized GMC[…]
This morning we were without the kids, so we went for an unsatisfactory coffee, an ok pie and a superlative doughnut before going home to the girls. I was pretty exhausted but my wife made[…]
It’s now a tradition that to celebrate our kids’ birthdays we have a water fight in the back garden of the house in Dartmouth where we stay. Last year I managed to stay well out[…]
The flight from Salt Lake City left on time, which was the only one that did today. We flew to Detroit and landed half an hour ahead of schedule, so rather than the sprint through[…]
The flight from Seattle was delayedby an hour because the front wheel on the undercarriage was stuck. So we landed in Salt Lake City an hour late. That was 15 minutes after my flight to[…]