life
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Met some new people, hung out with people again. Including lunch at Etsy, which was lovely. Also caught up with one of my friends on VC, which was awesome. Made it to 5 in my 10 men in tech I don’t hate project! Feels like a milestone. I want to venture outside of Berlin now.…
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Rest Day – Buffer Day – Focus Day
→: Rest Day – Buffer Day – Focus DayMy friend introduced me to this concept recently and I’ve found it really helpful. Rest days: complete break from work (I call them “no computer” days). Buffer days: get through the myriad of small things that pile up. Focus days: move the needle on Big Projects. Some observations: Rest days need to happen before they are…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Still in love with Berlin, and had a friend to stay for a bit which was great. Although I’m still a bit run down (and coughing!) which is rubbish – probably the cold here! Had brunch with someone over from the US for a few days, and a new Berlin friend organised dim sum…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Enjoying Berlin, meeting people and touristing. I have a friend visiting from Canada, which is great. Still – still – coughing like I have typhoid but mostly when I’m cold so I’m getting back into working out more. Although still no swimming – sadness. Met up with another man in tech for The Project…
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Fifteen is for Freedom
→: Fifteen is for FreedomA year before I left Google, I crafted an 18 month plan to set me up for what came next. 12 months into it, I realised I should stop waiting for the rest of my life to start and handed in my notice. I had many good experiences at Google, even if some… weren’t so…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Hanging out in Berlin! I’ve been meeting lots of lovely people and exploring – it’s great. Still feeling under the weather but I’ve been making it to the gym, even if only for cardio! Starting to think about where I will go next, Montreal is pretty high on the list right now! Work Spent…
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Berlin, December 2014
→: Berlin, December 2014[slickr-flickr search=”sets” set=”72157650175504376″ align=”center”] I came to Berlin for a few days in December to meet friends over from Australia. It was a pretty relaxed trip, as I knew I would be back in January for longer. There is a lot of great historical stuff to see in Berlin, but it can be quite confronting,…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife I packed up and moved to Berlin for a couple of months! Already I’ve hung out with some new and interesting people who live here, and had a visitor so that is great. Still coughing which is horrible, but finally made it to the gym again where I was a bit pathetic. But at…
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Working for Free
→: Working for FreeMy strategy for painlessly saving a year of living costs: Have a well-paying corporate job. Live in a series of socialist countries. Neglect to file tax returns. File them all in a rush in the couple of months as you finalise your plans for leaving aforementioned corporate job. Cash the cheques as they arrive from various governments.…