inspiration
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The Joy of Scope Creep
→: The Joy of Scope CreepI’m disciplined about scope. Ship the smallest thing that moves you forward. The feature you don’t build is the feature you don’t maintain. When I was running a team, holding the why was the job. Keeping us focused on the things that actually mattered, and away from the things that didn’t. In Navigating the AI…
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2021 in Photos
→: 2021 in PhotosSince 2017, I’ve been posting a photo every day to Instagram and photo.cate.blog. I kept that up last year, posting 361 photos in total. In 2021, the aesthetic monotony of pandemic life really started to get to me and this was probably the hardest this project has ever felt. I think part of the appeal…
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2020 in Photos
→: 2020 in PhotosSince 2017, I’ve been posting a photo every day to Instagram and photo.cate.blog. I kept that up last year, posting 363 photos in total. In 2020 most challenging was the monotony of long periods of lockdown, but I’m glad I kept at it. In 2019’s recap post I wrote, “when writing has felt impossible, it’s…
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Ambition, Failure, and my Favourite Podcast
→: Ambition, Failure, and my Favourite PodcastI was listening to the last episode of season 1 of my friend Diana’s podcast “Should We”, and the title of this one is called “Should We Actually Try?” I love Should We because I love Diana, and because there’s something about listening to a podcast where two friends who know each other well are…
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No Computer Day
→: No Computer DayI don’t think any credible writing about time management can start without acknowledging certain things. I am single, have no other responsibilities, work mostly remotely. and live typically either in a hotel or in an apartment with a weekly cleaning service, in a central part of town. What is “No Computer Day?” It’s a day…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Last week in London so rushing around catching up with people, felt like I spent the week running around but not really achieving very much. Went for lunch at Facebook (fab) and had some good meetings. Spent an evening in Brighton, and ventured out to suburbia for a Science Extravaganza on behalf of Stemettes,…
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Things To Write When I’ve Nothing To Say
→: Things To Write When I’ve Nothing To SayI’ve had horrible writers block lately. The list of things I can’t write yet (or maybe ever) drowns out the things I would like to. And so a Deadline Looms because according to the schedule I’m due to write something and I sit with my laptop open, a blank screen in front of me, and try…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife I have had the most eventful and exhausting week. It started off so well – really great day Monday, progress on on a demo, catching up with friends before I leave London. And then the shower in my apartment broke, I had to move out two weeks early, and I spent the weekend at…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Lots of interesting meetings, NativeSummit (which was cool), Women in Tech meetup at Facebook, and a meetup for the Nesta Hack my friend and I are taking part in next weekend. Starting to prep talks for next year, which is fun. Confirming two more conferences to speak at soon! And playing with AutoLayout. Media Watching…