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Too close to make it better

• December 13, 2025

Are you too close to something to see how to make it better?

Aiming for the second time

• December 12, 2025

I was chatting to a colleague and he mentioned how he had written some code and expected it to work first time and was surprised when it didn’t.

Buncefield

• December 11, 2025

20 years ago on the 11th December 2005 I had just got up and was walking down our hallway when there was a massive explosion and it literally felt like the whole roof had been lifted off and landed back down again. The heavy wooden loft door was blown open and we later found it had buckled our patio doors.

In at the deep end

• December 5, 2025

In my first “real” job I was definitely thrown in at the deep end on my first day and it changed my career.

More skilled

• October 30, 2025

Seth Godin asks

If someone with more skill and dedication took over your work, how many ways could they make it better?

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YouTube as a precursor

• October 29, 2025

Could the history of YouTube indicate the path that AI is going to be follow for the generation of applications?

Reminiscing about Turbo Pascal

• October 18, 2025

Sometimes you come across a video that brings back memories.

The endless search for a task tracker

• September 21, 2025

I have tried lots of different ways to track tasks, or have a to do list, and they have all failed at some point.

Performing a department review/reboot

• September 5, 2025

Just before I recently went on holiday our CEO set me some “homework”.

Slack ramblings

• September 4, 2025

I used to capture all my thoughts and things I was working on in a text file at work but this approach slowly died. I use a WhatsApp chat with only me in it to capture random personal stuff at the moment.