Today I kept an eye out for happy things, happy sights, and happy people: First thing in the morning, I hit my phone’s monthly data limit, which meant I was unable to brood inside my own self-curated digital echo chamber, and consequently put the phone away and looked around more. Two women who walked past […]
so rehearse like it’s a show Every time someone asks me or one of my friends for advice about writing a presentation, the first thing we’re likely to do is point them to Russell’s useful blog posts. They are: Doing the hard work to make it big Doing the hard work to make it clear Doing […]
I commute long-distance. Most weeks, I’m on a train early on a Monday or Tuesday morning, crossing the UK from west to east, Wiltshire to London. There’s a lot to long-distance commuting that’s less than fun, but one of the upsides is what you can see out of the window – as long as you […]
Matt Jukes tweeted about a familiar situation the other day: “Home early as I really needed to write a paper – but now I am staring at a blank text file and occasionally writing then deleting a title.” I know what he means. A lot of people do. That terror of the blank page is something I’ve […]