Category: life
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Book: Burnout – The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
I first read Burnout – The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski in May 2019. I was, at the time, pretty fried. I’d recently written The Cost of Fixing Things about three back-to-back team turnarounds – one of them with a fractured shoulder whilst buying and renovating a house. I’d…
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Spring Cleaning in December
I used to have a habit of refreshing my website at the end of each year, but I missed a couple and then it became in my head a bigger project that was a discouraging combination of feeling both pointless and overwhelming. But on a productive tear (with Claude) during the winter break, I finally…
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Q4 2025
I like the idea of doing a quarterly review of my annual theme, as a way to reset, re-evaluate, figure out what I want to change and celebrate what I did actually accomplish. I set my intention for the year as “health”, and in Q4 I returned to myself as a creative being. I read…
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Q3 2025
I like the idea of doing a quarterly review of my annual theme, as a way to reset, re-evaluate, figure out what I want to change and celebrate what I did actually accomplish. I set my intention for the year as “health”, and in Q3 I tried to keep up momentum from Q2 whilst also…
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Q2 2025
I like the idea of doing a quarterly review of my annual theme, as a way to reset, re-evaluate, figure out what I want to change and celebrate what I did actually accomplish. I set my intention for the year as “health”,and after a rough start in Q1, Q2 was when I tried to come…
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Q1 2025
Having set my intention for the year as “health”, Q1 2025 felt a bit like whatever the atheist, gender neutral equivalent is of the saying “Man plans, and God laughs”. I had a good start to January – all set with my intentions and my Trello board – only to get very sick in February…
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2024 Highlights
As the year wraps up I spent some time thinking about how it went, and what I’m hoping for in 2025. Personal My word for 2024 was connection – a correction from a multi year pandemic that flowed neatly into [living under a rock] writing a book. I wanted to prioritize being a better friend,…
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What Comes Next?
I have had a beautiful summer. Bookended by two epic trips either side, Hong Kong -> Sydney -> Bali before, and India (Dehradun, Chandigarh, Delhi) after, the summer was peaceful. I prioritized neglected parts of my life. My spine – finally went to the chiropractor, got into yoga, finally learned how to enjoy it. My…
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On Time
The past year I’ve been working on a book. I organized my entire life to carve out and preserve my Saturdays for this project. It is finally done (almost! Just reviews of proof pages to go); I got my weekends back just in time to work them through the review cycle, and with the worst…