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 the family came back from LA, arriving at the house after the furniture company had been and set up our girls’ bunk beds. Unfortunately, our comically incompetent movers had not assembled our bed, so[…]
I really don’t like LAX. I flew in last night and got lost, contradictory signs pointing me one way and then another as I struggled to find my way to my waiting car. Today, I[…]
I flew to LAX tonight, an airport I’ve been to once before, back in 1999. I didn’t like it then, I don’t like it now. Traffic was dreadful (it took me 15 minutes to get[…]
This evening we went to Black Pepper, a South East Asian restaurant in Menlo Park that had a menu basically of upmarket renditions of Singaporean food (chilli crab, Hainan chicken, chicken and rice, fried rice)[…]
Today was when all our belongings were scheduled to be delivered. I was told the van would arrive some time between 10am and 1pm, and I was also expecting a couple of packages from Amazon[…]
On the train back from Portland I read another Horus Heresy book, the 24th to be published It’s remarkable to me that Games Workshop would be able to diversify like this. I suppose there have[…]
One of the books on my list to read this year was Rogue Male, a book I spied in the Picadilly branch of Waterstones when we were in London in December.
This morning I got up at 6am and left my Airbnb, waiting to be picked up by Sergio, who was going to take me on a tour of the waterfalls around Portland. Despite this being[…]
I’d travelled to Portland to take part in a Blood Bowl tournament, while my wife and kids were away in California. This morning I got up, walked for about twenty minutes to Blue Star doughnuts[…]
La Serpiente crawled into bed about 1am, demanding to know how many minutes remained until the sun came up. She asked the same question for the next hour or so, in between fidgeting and arguing[…]