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S01E11: Relive

So. One year later. Huh. What can I say that hasn’t already been said? Nothing much I suspect but it has been interesting reading back on some of the stuff I wrote this time last year. I’d already committed to a month of ‘daynotes’ for March 2020 – they were supposed to cover SDinGov and…

March 19, 2021
[book report] True Believer – the rise and fall of Stan Lee

hatchet job (plural hatchet jobs) (idiomatic) A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation. Synonyms: slam piece, hit piece, traducement, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, defamation. This book by journalist Abraham Riesman is the very definition of a hatchet job. Relentless in its…

March 14, 2021
S01E10: React

Not really feeling the work talk this week. The week started with the tsunami of racist reactions to the Meghan/Harry interview with Oprah and then the news of what had happened to Sarah Everard hit and was followed by a flood of first person accounts from women about the harassment and abuse they have endured.…

March 12, 2021
Busman’s holidays

One of those Facebook ‘memories’ reminded me that today is the anniversary of heading off to my one and only visit to SXSW (long after it had jumped the shark) in 2015 and it came hot on the heels of a reminder of my trip to Miami for FOWA conference back in 2008. I paid…

March 10, 2021
WFH WTF SOS (1 year later)

This time last year I wrote about my concerns about the sudden shift to remote working – at the time thinking it would be a couple of months. My main worry was really that I was bad at it. I’d struggled with remote at mySociety and nothing made me think I’d changed. I was worried…

March 9, 2021

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