Free Post flexible working Home or Office: pick your discipline Working from home, versus corporate office life: Discipline. Everyone talks about how much discipline you need to work at home. But how much discipline does it take to go to the same strange city office every day, for all the hours of daylight? To
Free Post blogging Morning nostalgia I am having a deeply nostalgic day right now. Not only am I provisioning a new blog – just as I used to back in my days as RBI’s blogmeister – but today is a day of note, as this tweet suggests: 12 years ago
Free Post blogging Let's try this again Well, hello, blog. I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you. I’ve been terribly busy, you see. We’re right in term time at City University, which always keeps me busy – but added to that, I’ve recently landed the biggest contract I’
Free Post consultancy The price of the four-day weekend I sometimes underestimate just how different the life I choose to live is. I can often work where I want – like the coffee shop I’m sat in right now. I have a lot of freedom to pick and choose the people I work
Free Post disconnection Achievement unlocked: good holiday The last time I was back off holiday and feeling this rested, I was about four hours away from my life being turned upside-down. Hopefully it’ll work out better this time. 🙂 I’ve been off at my brother’s place in France, enjoying
Free Post coworking Orking the Cow As a sort of addendum to yesterday’s post, I am seriously considering looking at joining a co-working space or renting a small office, so I can potentially put some distance between myself and my work at the end of the day. Working largely
Free Post freelancing Man meets hospital. Survives. Life has a way of throwing you curveballs. And by “curveballs”, I mean a visit to hospital via paramedics and an ambulance. While I’m all for new experiences, this was not one I found particularly thrilling, especially the moments spent laying on gurney,
Free Post beach Weekend Joy and Monday Reality The weekend: The Monday morning price of ignoring the internets for the delights of the beach: And I don’t even want to think about the marking…
Free Post 31-3-14 31-3.6 Time, money and desk space I started this daft writing project with ideas of fighting complacency. It’s too easy to slip into habits in your blogging, to just keep doing what you did before, without any serious attempt to keep pushing yourself forwards. And, in a sense, I’
Free Post 31-3-14 31-3.2 A daily thrashing with the 500 word stick So, here’s a question. Why am I putting myself through the horror of trying to write something substantive for this blog every single day in March? Leaving aside the possibility of an unexplored masochistic streak, the fundamental reason is because I want to.
Free Post corporate culture Stop working so damn hard You shouldn’t put in so many hours working. Why? The perplexing thing about the cult of overwork is that, as we’ve known for a while, long hours diminish both productivity and quality. Among industrial workers, overtime raises the rate of mistakes and
Free Post home 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
Free Post lifelogging 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.
Free Post lifestyles 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
