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A Sunday e-mail sabbatical

There’s something seductive about counter-intuitive solutions. The fact that they feel wrong makes you think that they’re right… I’m trying something counter-intuitive right now. I’ve been struggling with balancing productivity and family time since my wife went back to work

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Sometimes, you just need to live in the moment

About as beautiful reminder as you could ask for that sometime we need to live in the moment, and not mediate every experience through our phones.

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The problem with self-employment

I’ve just had my eyes opened by, of all things, The Onion: While cracking open his second beer as he chatted with friends over a relaxed outdoor meal, Platt was reportedly seconds away from letting go and enjoying himself when he was suddenly

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Watch this before you start work

There’s a whole load of genuine research behind these ideas. One thing I’ve done consistently since I worked on the Nokia project back at the beginning of the year has been designing my day in exactly this way. I’m very time-constrained

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The work/life infusion

Dan Catt on his reasons for leaving The Guardian: It was the crushing lack of scope for creativity within the projects that was the problem. They fell very much into the category of ‘move this over here, put that there, add something somewhere else’

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Like Minds Exeter 2012 Liveblogs - day one

Links to my liveblogs of day one of Like Minds Exeter 2012**Morning session:**- [Russ Lidstone: Why what you do matters](http://wearelikeminds.com/like-minds-2012/russ-lidstone-why-what-you-do-matters) – Russ kicked off the “ideas festival” with a talk that played straight to the core issues of

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Beach Sunset

One of the boons of my current more… independent workstyle is the time to walk along Shoreham Beach in the afternoons, enjoying the raw beauty of nature.

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Living (and Blogging) Better in 2010

Christmas is finally, irrevocably over. I have taken down the Christmas cards and decorations at home, and am back in the office, with a denuded and forlorn looking tree (right). And that means my self-imposed social media diet is over. I’ve made tentative

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