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Sliding into my sabbatical
My sabbatical officially starts tomorrow but truth be told I’ve barely worked for the last three weeks due to a combination of leave and stress. I’ve been lurking on Slack and keeping an eye on my emails – popping in with the occasional comment or contribution but it hasn’t been much and now it won’t…
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May 2021
Traditionally May is my second favourite month*. Two bank holidays is always a blessing and in years gone by I’ve built amazing holidays around those days off. Timehop has been actively reminding me about those holidays – which is a bit of a mixed blessing truth be told. Last year though I caught Covid in…
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“Do you have any questions for us..?”

Reading that the venerable Giuseppe Sollazzo is adding a new feature to his newsletter combined with the whole Basecamp debacle (where a company long hailed for its admirable culture turned out to have anything but) I am considering adding an occasional element to my weekly jobs newsletter. I’d give the hiring manager (or team member)…
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Basecamp bollocks
Honestly I don’t have much to say about it all – in fact I can’t even be bothered to change my holding title for this post! That said I might want to use some of the fall out of this in future ‘working in the open’ posts so here we are. If you missed it…
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[Book Report] Kill it with Fire by @bellmar
After finding my reading mojo pretty much absent in 2020 I’ve been enjoying getting back into books this year. Part of that has been helped by two decisions. To get back to reading actual paper books to get some escape from screens and to avoid ‘work’ related books. Then I saw this tweet from Aaron…