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, after not enough sleep, we got up and began packing the car. This involved a few sacrifices (mostly of the things we didn’t have the space to bring with us, rather than the entrails[…]
I was woken by La Serpiente early this morning and put her back to bed, but I couldn’t sleep myself after 4am, and so I spent the whole day exhausted, blundering from nap to nap.[…]
This was another quiet day. With the bribe of doughnuts, we got the kids to come down to REI with us so we could shop for a duffel to stuff all our clothes into, and[…]
Today we saw the parents of two of our dearest friends from Hong Kong, visiting from where they live in Colorado. For the first time in almost two months it was overcast and threatening rain,[…]
I had a call with our contractor this morning, a confusing, echoey affair where he couldn’t hear us properly, and at the end he asked if we could see him on site at some point.[…]
The kids had their climbing class again today, so I rushed them over there, then came back and tried to put my life in order. We have plenty of paperwork to do, preparation for the[…]
I took the family to the IRS today, which was both much more and much less stressful than expected.
The girls had their second day at the climbing gym today, and apparently they discovered that soft children’s hands don’t endure four hours of climbing, so they’d all trooped off to the swings in the[…]
I took the girls to their first climbing lesson today, four hours in the gym while we stayed at home and did … stuff. After last week, which seemed to go on forever, this week[…]
This afternoon we went to visit my friend Heather, who used to be a colleague of mine when we worked for Expedia in Singapore. We saw her in June of 2019, so it’s been a[…]