I listen to a lot of podcasts, they provide a great combination of education, entertainment and company when I’m out walking or cycling alone (I reserve listening to audio books for holidays). Yesterday I listened to a particularly interesting podcast that described the concept of Temptation Bundling: the idea of...
I’ve been in a severe flare for the last 37 days, a traumatic experience that’s required quite a lot of resilience to get through. Every day I’ve had to fight with myself to overcome my natural tendency to curl up in a ball and instead force myself to keep moving,...
On this blog I’m always going on about living the best day I can, every day, not living like every day is my last – which seems to extreme – but consciously planning to live well; to avoid going through life on autopilot; to avoid accepting a gradual decline in...
Further to my post earlier in the week, I’ve been reducing my Pregabalin dose gradually over the last few days. I’m much sharper in the mornings and the evenings now. I’ve been going through my normal Caffe Nero ‘work’ routine and I can’t believe how much time I have. Only...
Companies like mine would like to think that there are only a handful of work styles that they need to support and that they can easily categorise the way people work. Normally this is achieved using a classification that is focused on the type of work that a person does,...
I spent an interesting few days trialling Windows Phone recently, I chose the the highly recommended Lumia 930 hardware to give it the very best chance to wow me into keeping it. It didn’t stick, in fact while there were a few design features I liked and the hardware was...
Over the last month I’ve doubled my dose of Pregabalin, one of the medications that I use. Within a few days I noticed a significant improvement in pain (the desired result) but a strange side effect, the time taken to achieve any cognitively demanding task significantly increased, by at least...
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...