It’s appraisal time at work right now and it’s our custom to seek 360 degree feedback, which is starting to stream in. One recurring theme over the years has been that some of my work is too conceptual or theoretical and this makes it hard to directly implement. I’ve thought...
Gadgets of one form or another have been a constant in my life, I’m drawn to them in a way that I can’t fully explain, but there’s a constant niggling voice in my head encouraging me to give in to my desire to buy, to tweak, to enhance, to play....
I’ve been thinking about my productivity a lot over the last few months, it’s struck me that for all the new innovations that have been delivered it hasn’t improved that that much. As I look back over the last 20 years the high points are not the obvious ones, it’s...
Over the last year I’ve used the Coach Me app on my iPhone and iPad to track all of the aspects of my life that I want to promote or prevent. For example I wanted to have more family meals and less high pain days, I wanted to spend more...
Well, I took the plunge, inspired by Microsoft’s January Launch of Windows 10, I’ve decided that the only way to really evaluate it is to use it. I’m already 2/3 Microsoft. The heart of my home is a HP Micro server running Windows 8, 3 TB of media, backups and...
Microsoft continued it’s gradual unveil of Windows 10 yesterday. It didn’t touch on any of the enterprise features, which have been strangely down played so far, but it did clearly demonstrate its vision of a single platform spanning all form factors. For the first time in over a decade it...
Passion is important in life. People often develop a passion for their work because they work hard at it, get good at it, make progress and get positive feedback. It’s rare that they start out with this passion, they just take the first step ‘work hard’ and the rest follows...
Over the last few years I’ve found Facebook to be useful as a way to keep in touch with friends and family, to watch their lives unfold from afar. Unfortunately when I open up Facebook now that’s not what I see, instead of news about people I care about, I...
I recently read the results of an interview with a CEO about their requirements for office space,t he result was bland and in my view useless, they said that the workplace needed to: Reflect the proper, as well as a positive image on the company to clients, investors, partners and...
I’ve been experimenting with improving my work life balance for decades and my approach has mainly been one of work-life integration; where I seamlessly integrate work activities with ‘life activities’ through the day. But the idea of balance had gradually asserted more prominence in my approach; it no longer seems...