This post is the fourth in a series about my working life I’ve worked with people to improve their productivity for over 20 years and some of that has hopefully rubbed off on my own working practice. There’s no universal productivity practice though, what’s best for one person will be...
I started my day as usual doing research, reading and writing at Caffe Nero and later at the Beach Terrace Cafe which has received a social media makeover. Everywhere I looked there were posters and banners promoting their new Facebook presence, encouraging me to Like their Facebook page, upload pictures...
This post marks a major writing milestone for me, it is post 1001 on my blog. The blog has actually been hosted in three different places in it’s history but its migrated from server to server with reasonable success. All those 1000 posts still exist but many of the links...
This post is the first in a series about my working life I used to be ambitious but soon after I became ill I realised that personal ambition was incompatible with the advice I was receiving from my doctors and more importantly from the International Still’s Disease Foundation which provides...
Each day this week while on Holiday with Steph in Filey I’m planning to write a post covering a different element of my working life. I’ve carefully designed this life so as to maximise my impact and productivity with the lowest levels of stress and minimal working hours. Whilst some...
As Christmas approached last year I decided that I didn’t need anything. More than that I decided that I had too much, and didn’t need to buy anything for a long time. Even after coming to this conclusion though it would be easy to drift back into old habits, I’ve...
I’m working on some ‘what I’ve learned in the last 10 years’ posts this month. They draw on the long history of my personal knowledge management (PKM) archive, but unfortunately it’s decayed even faster than my aging brain. All the systems that I’ve used at work for personal knowledge management...
I don’t believe in a god but I do believe in the teachings of Jesus interpreted for the modern world. Fortunately, for me, Jesus holds no religious (or other form of) authority so I also get to draw on the teachings of other religions and philosophies for inspiration, but I...
Driving home from Cambridge Steph and I were discussing teams and so I got to explain my favourite tool for establishing effective collaboration, building ‘common ground’. It’s an incredibly simple concept, but that simplicity makes it powerful. The basic idea: The more complex a collaboration, the more areas of common...
Winter has been particularly grim for me this year. A combination of serious issues at work, my poor health, the poor health of my youngest three children, uncertainty about my eldest daughters post graduation plans and terrible weather has been quite overwhelming. From so many perspectives then I’m thankful that...