Wishful Reading List 2024

I published my reading list later than I normally would last year, and like that was a bad omen, ended up not reading even half of the books on there. I started a lot of books and didn’t finish, so some time was still spent reading. Here’s what turned out to be my wish list for last year, just ...

Robbers Don't Wake Up Early in Offa

I saw a post recently on twitter about how banks only opened from 9am - 12pm in Offa. Something about it triggered a faint memory, so I looked in the comments to see if there were any explanations. True enough to that memory, these short banking hours seemed to be due to a famous daylight ...

When you drop the ball.

If you’re someone who likes to do a lot of things, you might get in a situation where you’re juggling too many balls and one eventually drops. I lost a client recently and it was a bummer because I had gotten through the hump of getting immersed in the project, and things were starting to take ...

Doing It Yourself

It may seem like knowledge workers favor outsourcing all menial tasks to give them time to make more money, but my unpopular opinion is that you shouldn't always automate or outsource. things like going into a grocery store to shop, ironing your own clothes, cooking and cleaning. These tasks ...

On leaving: Projects.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well, but sometimes there’s a fork in the road that means you have to leave a project in your past. I strongly believe that the way you leave things also matters just as much as how you behaved while doing the thing. Ideally how I want to leave projects is: ...