Old buildings
I love old buildings , and I usually feel a strange sort of curiosity mixed with nostalgia for the people and cultures that made them.… Read More »Old buildings
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Friction (4): mental overhead and nameless dread
Mental Overhead Another type of friction we experience is from the ongoing mental overhead of having too many balls in the air. Unfinished projects, unanswered… Read More »Friction (4): mental overhead and nameless dread
Little jobs
There’s a lot to be said for batching – saving up similar jobs and then working through them efficiently in one go. But doing little… Read More »Little jobs
Time on our hands: la durée
The idea is really just this: time on a watch is not the same as time in your head. An hour can fly by or… Read More »Time on our hands: la durée
Motion sickness: change and stability
If you’ve ever suffered from motion sickness in a car or on a boat, you probably know that it helps to look at a fixed… Read More »Motion sickness: change and stability
Timing your talk
Rehearse and rehearse and rehearse. Unless it’s perfectly scripted, bank on it taking a third longer in real life than it does in practice.
Typo (3): the myth of correct spelling
Ironically – considering the frequency with which school children use it for exactly this purpose – the Oxford English Dictionary never set out to specify… Read More »Typo (3): the myth of correct spelling
Social media: the Ruby principle
Don’t talk so much. Instead be so good that for your clients …there’s nothing at all Except the space in-between Finding out what you’re called… Read More »Social media: the Ruby principle
Typo (2): error rate
The other thing about typos is how few we actually make relative to the attention we pay to them. A single spelling or grammar mistake… Read More »Typo (2): error rate
Typo (1)
I was reading an article – a thoughtful, well researched, nicely structured, neatly expressed piece of writing about something important – when I came across… Read More »Typo (1)