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The Ingenuity of Simplicity
I was doing my usual rounds on various sites this morning and saw something that caught my eye, talking about how making things simple is difficult. I decided I would read it a bit later, but of course I immediately forgot where I saw it. A bit later I was speaking a founder who had… Read note →
This time I think it might work
I’ve just launched something that I have been wanting for a very, very long time. I had my first attempt at it back in 2019, even announcing it on this blog. Last time it didn’t go anywhere… this time I have high hopes. I’m an accidental community founder. I never particularly planned for it, but… Read note →
AI is my copilot
I accidentally vibe coded a thing My team has been struggling with questions like “what do we mean by X?” and disagreeing about what certain terms mean in the context our work. So on Friday i decided that the answer was to create a glossary of terms to give us a shared vocabulary,. I made… Read note →
Write then
Blogging Challenge: Embracing Daily Writing Practice After Years I’ve had this domain, and a blog on it for an awfully long time. In fact, I’ve just checked, the first post is from 18 years ago this month, a few months before my second daughter was born. I wrote a lot more back then. I guess… Read note →
Christmas
… the expectations of it never match reality. It gives me the same feeling of dread as when someone announces a team building exercise at a work meeting. But this year has been weird & for the first time in, well, as long as I can remember frankly I’m quite looking forward to having most… Read note →
Wayback Machine saved my skin
A while back I did a very silly thing. Well, actually I did a series of things that all seemed perfectly sensible at the time but the upshot was a bit of a disaster. I started this blog way back in 2006 and over the years I accumulated over 100 posts, which is not a… Read note →
Let’s agree to never speak of this again
I don’t think I’m a naturally grumpy person, but there are somethings that I just don’t understand that bring out my inner curmudgeon. My feelings about sport pretty much match the way I feel about religion: Practice it & enjoy it if you want (though for the life of me I don’t understand why you would),… Read note →
And another thing…
I’ve blogged about books in the past, but these have usually been work related books that I’ve read. This is a work of fiction that, as yet I haven’t read. I have been a fan of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy” since I was about 12. I remember lying in bed… Read note →