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[…]
I woke up feeling a bit rough today (getting to sleep at 3am will do that to you) and then the day was a bit of an odd one; the kids were good, or bad,[…]
I went to the DMV today to sort out my license. The order of steps on the website is simple, if a little strange: first you fill in a bunch of details, then you take[…]
I went out for a business dinner with a client tonight; we needed to talk to him to get more details on a project, and as I haven’t met him in person before, this was[…]
I woke up to rain this morning, a relaxing sound as the water came down from the heavens, and my eldest snuggled up in our bed. I was tempted to turn off my alarm and[…]
I was tempted to spend my evening playing Blood Bowl, but my wife persuaded me I should go climb instead, to clear my head and relax. So I took an Uber south to Seattle Bouldering[…]
I had to change my laptop today; my old one, a Lenovo Yoga X1, has been getting increasingly unreliable, getting hot and sometimes refusing to cooperate. So I swapped it for a more powerful model[…]
This morning I went for a long run with my friend Dave; it took us over an hour to do less than 10 km. To be fair, that involved scrabbling up and down a steep[…]
I played four games of Blood Bowl today: one in the morning that I drew 1-1, one in the evening that I lost 3-0, another game that I lost 2-1, and then the last one[…]
After work today, and after Destroyer had screamed at me that she wanted her mother for what felt like half an hour before going to sleep, I went out to Seattle Bouldering Project to climb.[…]
Last night I was so tired that I fell asleep on the bedroom floor while my wife was reading the girls their bedtime stories, and then I fell asleep again while cuddling Destroyer down to[…]