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[…]
As expected, I was sore and tired when I got up this morning, and, combined with the wet weather, sluggish. I lost about four hours to errands: returning ill fitting trousers to REI, buying electrical[…]
This morning I dropped the girls off for a walk around Green Lake with their classmates, then went to dig a ditch beside my house in which to bury a grounding wire. Seattle soil seems[…]
I went for a run today, for the first time in a year, if you exclude a few random attempts to run a block or two. It was the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot in Seattle, and[…]
We went to see the 25th Bond film tonight, the glorious No Time To Die, in a boutique cinema up past Shoreline where you could order food to be delivered to your seat, and booze[…]
The girls are off school all week, so I hid in the shed at the end of the garden and worked, while my wife entertained them. My mouth is less sore than it was, but[…]
Today we took the kids for their covid vaccinations (totally uneventful, they were solid little things) and then doughnuts, and I dropped them off near where we’re staying and zoomed up to Everett with my[…]
We packed up and moved house again today, possibly one of our last moves before we get back into our own house again. I drove the girls over to a birthday party in a park[…]
I went in for my surgery today. They put some blankets on me and some monitors, and asked me to squeeze a small plastic ball while they got ready to put a stent in my[…]
Tomorrow, I’m not allowed to eat anything after 2 am, or drink anything after 6 am, because I’m going to get my wisdom teeth removed and that requires local anaesthetic. And you don’t want to[…]
Today the HVAC subcontractor started work, installing our new heating and air conditioning system, and putting the ducts in place to guide the cool or warm air around our house. I was upstairs getting stuff[…]