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[…]
Destroyer drew a picture of her favourite soft toy, a pink rabbit named Bun-Bun, along with Bun-Bun’s mother, on the kitchen whiteboard. This was quite glorious. And interesting that while La Serpiente shows little interest[…]
Back to work after ten days away, and there were only 250 emails to sift through, respond to or delete. I made some progress there but the adjustment from not having to do anything in[…]
This was the last day before I go back to work, even if that will just be commuting to my desk at the back of the house. To celebrate, we drove to a couple of[…]
It was my parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary today, and rather than fly home for it, we had a Zoom call. I guess a good thing about a global pandemic is that we didn’t spend lots[…]
Today, without much sleep, we headed out for another hike, over near Deception Falls. It took us about two hours to walk four miles, around Whistle Lake, a pretty little bit of water near Anacortes.[…]
We finally got a contractor to give us a detailed quotation for the renovation of our house. Unfortunately, the number he gave us was about $5,000 shy of how much we paid for our house,[…]
Because we had a big hike yesterday, and the drive, we stayed home today. The promised rain never came, so in the afternoon we cycled to Loyal Heights and the kids wrestled on the grass[…]
This morning we got up early (well, by 7), fed the kids, drank coffee and then drove for two hours towards Mount Rainier, through the Indian reservation that was stacked with firework shops (such as[…]
We had planned to go out for another hike today, but with the exhaustion and my wife not being well last night, we gave it a miss. Instead, the girls played in the park and[…]
Today we went out to Whidbey Island, far from home. This was the first test of the new Yeti cooler we’d purchased, as well as a logistical mess; I hadn’t prepared at all last night,[…]