I asked Curt to read my latest half-finished draft for More Space and give me some feedback. He read it and said what he thought, which was a mixture of stuff he liked and quite a few things he didn’t. There’s no substitute for constructive criticism, and it made me hack away at it, stripping out some chunks and adding a few others. Then I left it alone for four days. Now it looks much better.
So thanks, Curt. Now, I’m trying to psych myself up for another push of the peanut.
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
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Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
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In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
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I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
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I don’t normally go in for party politics here but I would like to share this. I happen to live in a marginal constituency which probably explains the flood of
