I’ve been writing a daily diary for about sixth months now, and it’s been an interesting experiment. For want of a better location for it I published it on my blog, but made it slightly less visible than a typical blog post, the entries appeared in searches and if you...
Note: This post is a new version of an older post, adding new hints and tips I know my memory is failing me, it’s never been great, but ten years ago after years of medicinal steroid use (to help with my auto-immune condition) its decline really started to accelerate. By...
I’m always losing my Fitbit one activity tracker. It normally lives clipped onto my belt, but it gets caught on stuff and yanked off every few months. Usually I have a good idea of when this might have happened and track it down manually, but yesterday it was really lost. ...
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...
Although I don’t do a huge number of presentations, when I do I like to annotate on the screen as I’m talking. I’m doing this in order to sketch out an idea to promote a more natural discussion, using PowerPoint more as a whiteboard, or I’m scribbling on the screen...
I work from home which has a lot of advantages so I don’t begrudge it, but sitting alone in a room is a sure way to kill every ounce of creativity that I have. Not one to be easily beaten though I’ve experimented with ways to boost creativity and it’s...
Life would be a lot easier if I had a single Twitter account linked to a single Facebook account. Unfortunately I’m rarely satisfied with simple when it comes to my technology usage, maybe that’s why I like the simple life outside of work. Once my usage of Twitter matured I...
If I had to choose just one application that’s had the biggest impact on my life I would have to choose Instapaper. I use it for 1-2 hours a day now and it brings joy to what was previously a complex, frustrating and distracting experience that used to take at...
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...
Over the years I’ve noticed that when people see me limp I get flooded with helpful advice along the lines of: My Aunt Mable had that and she used to swear by Cider Vinegar At first of course it’s lovely that people care enough to offer advice, but after the...