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[…]
It was a gorgeous sunny day and we headed out to Port Townsend – and then the sky turned grey and it began to drizzle. Still, we had a nice walk around Richmond (in the[…]
Today I went to the bank to sort out a loan for the house renovation. I had done a bit of research, and that involved somebody in New York calling me with an offered rate[…]
The Climb 2 was finally released on Oculus today, and having waited ages for it I was very excited to play it. After half an hour I had to stop – it was getting too[…]
I had planned to go swimming this evening, and I drove down to the club for my appointment, only to find the pool was shut for repair work for the next three days, and they’d[…]
My wife gave me a scented candle for our anniversary, a ginger and citron smell that was pretty nice, although the flame seemed quite smoky compared to other candles I’ve had. Still, that was fairly[…]
Today was the twelfth anniversary of my wife and I starting to date, so we celebrated* by having the girls yell at me for making too suspenseful a bedtime story about the four pigs (who[…]
I woke up about 7:30 and struggled to get to the climbing gym, where I managed a little over an hour, and when convinced that I was totally worn out, I drove home, stopping for[…]
I slept through my alarm and had to spring from bed, rushing to get dressed and down to the fitness club in Ballard for my morning swim. Somehow I managed to defrost the windscreen of[…]
I persuaded La Serpiente to ride her new unicycle today. We were gifted it by neighbours up the street a few months ago and it was too big for her then, but I got her[…]
There was a big rainstorm today, and just before it I got a bad headache. Maybe this was accumulated fatigue from all the swimming and climbing this week, or maybe it was a shift in[…]