I am a geek, so I follow Will Wheaton. Much as I like Will Wheaton, I am no longer fond of his catchphrase “don’t be a dick”. Don’t get me wrong. I agree that dickishness is more than plentiful and less would be better, but DBAD seems to be something that is only said to [...]
After an interesting exchange with a fellow blogger I feel the need to map out a bit more thoroughly than last time the pragmatic mashup of GTD and The Pomodoro Technique that is the method of my current madness. This is then a post about methods…aargh and I am (strange to say) not much of a [...]
As I very often say – I have an astounding ability to finally realize the extremely obvious. If I have an intellectual guardian angel she probably spends a lot of her time slapping her forehead and going “good grief”. My current brainstorm is on the subject of learning a new habit. I have finally realized [...]
I got used last week. But that’s ok. Here is how it happened. At the moment I spend part of my time in an environment were there is fear and lack of candour. People feel threatened and powerless and unable to connect to each other. Such situations are anathema to me, they dampen down our [...]
As Bruce Wayne’s father says “So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” It is a hard thing to do, perhaps the hardest thing. Coming back for something that really hurts you, really makes you doubt: very hard. But if you can do it, you will be stronger, simply because you know that you [...]
I got very interested recently in experiments being done in the field of “ego depletion“. The theory proposes that humans have a limited quantity of “ego” or willpower. When you exercise self-control you use up this resource and will then be less able to persist with other tasks. In the classic experiment of this field [...]
Let me tell you a story. I once ran a team into which was dropped a grumpy and rigid old-school programmer. He was unhappy to be landed with me and I was similarly unhappy that this ugly duckling had been dumped into my budget. Fortunately I had through personal experience one insight that served me [...]
Sometimes what I need to say seems to obvious. One of the things I am still learning is to say it anyway. I am a deeply fortunate person. I have a family I love, a cheerful disposition and there are moments in my day which are eternal, where I am breathless with the glory of [...]
I read a lot of webcomics. I have always loved comics, having been brought up with the Sparky and the Beano. Unlike their squashed-tree cousins, webcomics have almost no threshold. You could turn away from reading this, draw something, scan it and have a webcomic up in ten minutes. This means there are hundreds of [...]
There is something that I want to say, somewhat out of the ordinary for this blog, please be patient while I find a way to say it. I am a scarily cheerful person almost all of the time, particularly on diamond-bright blue-skied winter days like today. Things are actually pretty grim in the Netherlands, where [...]
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