Category: NaBloPoMo22

I’ve been writing a post all evening, with determination to finish before 12. But I didn’t make it. Still, it’s a draft, not totally wasted. Stings a bit though. I’m digging deep into memories of all the stories and lessons I’ve heard about embracing failure, and how it can make us stronger, but they’re pretty… Continue reading How to fail

Personal parables are like a regular parables, but they come from modern media and tend to be oddly specific to yourself. Past examples of mine are that bit in The Life of Brian where everyone is an individual, except that one bloke, that bit in Wall-E where humans become obese and glued to their screens… Continue reading Personal Parables #14. It wasn’t brains that got me here, I can assure you that

I’ve got three book recommendations, with overlapping reviews. Good Strategy/Bad StrategyBy Richard Rumelt …his original and pragmatic ideas… continue to help readers to recognise and avoid the elements of bad strategy and adopt good, action-oriented strategies that honestly acknowledge the challenges being faced and offer straightforward approaches to overcoming them. I was dubious when this… Continue reading Business books for self help. Self help books for parenting tips. Parenting books for business insight

This is a personal perspective, and I feel like a killjoy saying it, but I bet I’m not the only one. If anything, in our increasingly aware and openly neurodivergent world, I reckon we’ll start to hear more from folk like me. Those who feel hindered by icons, emoji, fancy buttons and emotive imagery. We’ve… Continue reading Icons and emoji distract me ℹ️ 🤷‍♂️ 😵 Can we please stop using them so much?

Paraphrased from here: Someone once told me that you should offer something if you’re networking. Even if it’s just thinking, experience or early ideas. It’s the best way to get the most out of someone and keep their interest. @AminaAOmar I’ve been mulling this tweet for a while now. It pretty much reflects the ideal… Continue reading You should offer something. Even if it’s just thinking, experience, or early ideas

Not sure if this is in contradiction to my last post, and the idea that there’s no such thing as doing something wrong, but I’m a real sucker for laws and rules of life. Statements that are seemingly always right. I’ve started to collect a list of the ones that seem to recur the most,… Continue reading Codifying life – There’s a law for everything

A series of thoughts run through my mind whenever I hear someone claim “you’re doing it wrong”. The feeling that the phrase, and others like it, allude to there being some physical law of how to do things right. Like gravity. The notion that we can be so utterly confident that the way we say… Continue reading Doing things ‘wrong’

Inspired by Amy Hupe, I’ve decided to join in with National Blog Posting Month, or #NaBloPoMo as it’s known. I was inspired also from a semi flippant comment from a colleague: Who reads the blog? Where is the blog? I didn’t know there was a blog! It wasn’t said in reference to this blog, but… Continue reading Having a go at National Blog Posting Month and not totally sure why