creativity
Escaping the tyranny of the team
Team work can be creative and fulfilling. But some tasks are better done alone. Can we design offices to allow that?
flexible working
Home or Office: pick your discipline
Working from home, versus corporate office life [https://opendor.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/working-from-home/]: > 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
consultancy
The price of the four-day weekend
Reflections on balancing parenthood and freelancing.
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, wondering if the brief goodbye I’
editing
Why I do very little freelance writing these days
So, I filed some copy the best part of seven weeks ago. I don’t do much traditional journalism freelance any more – and pretty much all the work I do choose to do is as an expert commenter, or where I’m give pretty much free reign. This one set
Blogging
And...back
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/09/berlin-bar.jpg] Right now, I’m in the foothills of the most scarily busy phase of my consulting life since a few weeks back at the beginning of the year. My diary is looking pretty solid, bar a few
BT
Moments from One Man's life
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/04/devonian-views.jpg] Once in a while, I miss the regularity and routine of the corporate job. That’s not my life any more, though, and recent weeks have sent in my life into something of a spiral of complexity.
Brilliant Noise
A silence, and an anniversary...
Apologies for the sudden outbreak of silence around here – look on it as the lull before the storm, if you like. This week is likely to be quiet, as I’m deep in a deadline crunch or five, with Hazel’s christening and a trip to Paris [http://www.onemanandhisblog.
apple
Back in business
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/macadam.jpg] That rather stern image of me above was taken while I was testing my repaired MacBook Pro at the Apple Store this afternoon. Two logic board replacements, and a microphone and speaker repair, and it seems to