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Experiment: No Novel November
→: Experiment: No Novel NovemberThere was a period, thankfully a brief one, when I was spending $100 a week on Kindle Books. I know, shocking. I was reading them too, mostly novels. I’ve since started tracking my expenditure on books more – limiting myself to a $100 a month budget, which was helping me not purchase quite so many…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife I caught up with an friend from high school, which was awesome! And a woman who I met at GHC ages ago – got to hear about her project Stemettes, which is amazing. Also went out with someone new, which was fun – we took a walk around Westminster at night, which is very…
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3 Things I Learned on my Burnout Break
→: 3 Things I Learned on my Burnout BreakI can live with less internet. Note – this is no no internet (although I survived my 6 days in NK), but less. Most of the time when traveling I’ve had some connection, but there has usually been a limit. Maybe it’s not on my primary (favorite) phone, or it’s really slow/intermittent (Bali! Portugal), or…
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The Difference Between “Relaxing” and “Being Relaxed”
→: The Difference Between “Relaxing” and “Being Relaxed”I live this somewhat frenetic life, but despite all my country hopping over the last few weeks… this has been a relaxed time for me. As a result, I realised something – being actually relaxed, feels very, very different from relaxing. Perhaps I’ve just been completely obtuse here, but it was something of a revelation…
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The Disillusionment of the Early Career Engineer
→: The Disillusionment of the Early Career EngineerYou’re brilliant! You have so many options! You graduate, start work… and now you’re at the bottom of the food chain. There’s a game on, and from what you understand of it, you’re not sure you want to play. Sometimes people ask me for advice. I have no idea why; I’m not sure what I’m…
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Some Thoughts on Gift Giving
→: Some Thoughts on Gift GivingI like to think – and I have some validation for this – that I am an excellent gift giver. It’s getting to be the time of year where we worry about gifts, so I thought I’d write up some of my thoughts. The Five Love Languages (Amazon) is a somewhat soppily named book but it’s actually…
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North Korea, July 2013: Day 6
→: North Korea, July 2013: Day 6As we meet up in the morning, there is much complaining about the showers – or lack thereof. Quote of the day: “How is your hair so nice when you only had a bucket?” “There was a comb, on the ground.” My “showering” the previous night was a good idea – people are complaining about…
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Jawbone UP vs Nike Fuelband
→: Jawbone UP vs Nike FuelbandI’ve been wearing a Nike Fuelband (v1), when I’ve had a working one, for about the last 18 months. The Jawbone UP (also v1), again when I’ve had a working one, for about 6 (both links Amazon). Sometimes it’s been just the one, and sometimes I’ve had one on each wrist – makes wearing jewellery a little…
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How To Be More Adventurous
→: How To Be More AdventurousI love that my How I Learned To Love Solo Travel post is still going on Medium and had something of a bounce again recently. And I guess it had to happen, finally someone points out that I wasn’t really being that adventurous. Fair enough, although I’m not interested in any man’s thoughts on the…