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 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[…]
It’s been a strange day. I started off in a big grump because there was a meeting at 9am that I didn’t want to have to go to, but I rushed down to the office[…]
I woke this morning with pains in my chest, which worried me until I remembered that last night I tried to work on my chest, after drinking a can of cider, and probably it’s not[…]
Today I went to the bank to pay in a cheque, because I live in the 19th century now and things like electronic fund transfer don’t exist. I didn’t have any ID with me, because[…]
I read another book about Space Marines, but this time not part of the incredibly long Horus Heresy series. Instead, this is set in the 41st millennium, which is the present day for Games Workshop’s[…]