I am just back from a near-perfect conference. I go to conferences because I am attracted by the sound of the headline speakers. There is the potential for interesting conversations, and hopefully there is a nice venue. And so often I have come back the speakers were OK – they had obviously done their thing too many [...]
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eXmas cards
December 24, 2010
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Over a billion (thousand million for us UK English pedants) greetings cards are sent out over Xmas. And so for the second year I have sent most of my Xmas cards electronically. I have used the British Library’s e-card service this year. I know there are some who use e-cards as an easy way to essentially spam their [...]
Read more Depression and giving up unattainable goals
November 17, 2010
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I found this article in The Economist. It suggests that depression has evolved to protect us from striving to reach the unreachable. Just as pain stops warns us to stop doing something that could be harmful, so depression does a similar thing. The hypothesis is that, as pain stops you doing damaging physical things, so low mood stops [...]
Read moreKeep innovating despite a failure or two
November 10, 2010
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Google’s success is legendary. Do you use any other search engine? Do you even know anyone who does? And yet, their path to world domination has been littered with failures. This graphic include the famous ones like Wave, and many others. Innovative ideas that have failed for whatever reason. Nevertheless, they relentlessly innovate. As a consequence we have a great search engine and first class [...]
Read more Grief, trauma, or personal change
September 19, 2010
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Major change, grief, the threatened loss of a job, all of these things can kick off a chain of events that can start with shock. The shock that this has happened, and happened to you, can give way to numbness and then denial. It hasn’t happened really, if I just carry on as before and if pretend it hasn’t happened perhaps it will [...]
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Impostor syndrome and an antidote
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Being in the zone
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Remembering Steve Jobs
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Apollinaire Said
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300 people helped
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How happy have you decided to be?
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Would Shakespeare have tweeted?
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