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Decided to try writing weeknotes again, this time following a bit more of a structured approach inspired by Andy Callow. What would you have liked to do more of? Contributing to the opportunity overview for one of the potential projects I’m involved in starting up. I think I can make some really valuable contributions to writing […] Keep reading →
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This week was annual leave (or rather taking back some of the lieu time I’ve built up recently). It’s not the tandem riding with Sara, afternoon teas and long lazy luxury lunches I’d planned though. It’s been teaching instead. I’ve really enjoyed it. Hugo has too, he’s been able to finish his work hours ahead […] Keep reading →
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Monday was quite a stressful day with the uptick in coronavirus seriousness. Hugo has been learning about how to use Google classrooms at school and his excitement about that was quite infectious. We decided to postpone our scheduled release which has some really exciting features like contract issuing and online offer/contract acceptance. It’s been an […] Keep reading →
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I’ve been concentrating a lot on catching up on various things, lots of odds and ends to tidy up. I’ve also been concentrating on my leadership course. At the prompt of the leadership course, I read Dan Pink’s Driven in preparation for a talk on motivation I’m doing. His theories about motivation really chime with my experience: […] Keep reading →
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Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson – short story from the Stormlight Archive Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwall – really good historical fiction, some of Cornwalls output seems a little formulaic but this standalone novel felt really imaginative. Codebreakers Secret History – massively comprehensive book covering cryptography until about 1960 (post-enigma computer cryptography is covered only in the […] Keep reading →
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I’ve just finished reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder. It’s a brilliantly written non-fiction account of creating a new computer in the late 70s under massive time constraints. It describes the characters involved, their leadership styles and creative processes, and has a healthy but very readable dose of technology. Lots of it really […] Keep reading →
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Running Running went downhill for me, I never took it up properly after getting shin splints, I started running more as the year went on but only ever managing 5km or so each week. Over the year I averaged 5km a fortnight, which was rather disappointing. I did run the Bolsover 10k which was supposed […] Keep reading →
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Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick – fantastic, though ending let it down slightly. World War Z by Max Brooks – unusual format – a series of fictional interviews. Nice take on zombie fiction though. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson. Gripping This is the Way the World […] Keep reading →
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Running One of the biggest changes to my life in 2017 was that I took up running. I built up from running 2-3km to regularly running a 5k two-or-three times a week. Running culminated in finishing the rather hilly Hardwick 10k in one hour and 41 seconds. Sadly, after the race my motivation waned and I gradually […] Keep reading →
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Nomad by Alan Partridge. I do miss the TV show Bands of mourning by Brandon Sanderson. Enjoying the Wax and Wayne series more and more Mistborn: secret history. Novella. Reread due to reading Bands of Mourning Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb. Fantastic story telling as usual. Really needs live ships trilogy to have been read […] Keep reading →
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