Mooching through Instagram the other day, I was delighted to see Jane Birkin described as a “kind of shambolic person”. This was a post by Back Row, trailing some quotes from their recent podcast interview with Marisa Meltzer about her book ‘It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin’. I haven’t listened to the […]
Work / Life / Balance
Song of the day: Streetband ‘Toast’
Recently, I have been getting into making bread. I used to make bread a lot when I was younger; the first house I owned had, for some illogical reason, a space heater in the gap under the stairs. The cat liked to sleep directly on the stair above it, and it made for a nice […]
Roomba with a view
My office is set up on our weirdly large landing (weirdly large because we made it so, knocking down a bathroom to open up and balance the space). It’s a lovely area, light, bright and airy but it’s not working for me as a workspace. It’s light and bright because it’s got a one-and-a-half-height ceiling […]
I don’t want to scale
A hazard of my job is being on LinkedIn far more than is healthy, and a hazard of being on LinkedIn too much is falling prey to the themes of any given era. At the moment it’s all about scale. I appreciate that ‘scale’ can mean just growing your revenue, rather than your team and […]
2FA for negative thoughts
If you are, by nature, a writer, then writing is often a way of putting shape to ideas. This is what I’m doing today: ‘scuse any rambling. — I’ve been thinking recently that it would be nice to have 2FA (two factor authentication) on those random negative thoughts, feelings and memories, that seem to pop […]
Who am I (this time)?
I’m on a mission at the moment to redefine what I do (again). The bid space has changed a lot in the last decade and continues to change. I’ve been moving towards the consultancy end of it for some time while still being (relatively) content to do the writing bit alongside. Over the last couple […]
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Song of the day: Rachel Baiman ‘Self Made Man’
Source: One of many on my ‘All the Pissed Off Ladies’ Spotify playlist but, really, take your pick. If you’re not careening wildly between ‘foaming at the mouth rage’ and ‘falling to the floor in pure hopelessness and devastation’ right now then I kind of envy you. Not entirely though because it does suggest either […]
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“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
A while back, I wrote about retiring old stories – ‘Memoirs vs Kondo-ing your history’ – and talked about how, once a story has served its purpose, it can be good to let it go and move on. I’ve made some pretty big strides professionally in recent times, and also had some other past endeavours […]