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Surprisingly familiar

May 13, 2023

In the TED talk The four-letter code to selling anything Derek Thompson explains about a concept called MAYA.

I once heard that the way you can tell if something is actually funny is that it causes you to laugh out loud even when you are by yourself. It is much easier to laugh at something when surrounded by others.

No more school

May 11, 2023

Today is my daughter’s last official day at school - they have a party for about an hour tomorrow so that doesn’t count.

Prototyping is not always coding

May 10, 2023

Part of my current role is prototyping new features and algorithms to determine if and how they will work. It’s nice to do some hands on coding still.

Expectations and comparisons

May 9, 2023

Some times expectations are met, or exceeded, and sometimes they fail to be met.

Which bird are you?

May 8, 2023

I am a lark.

In the book Time Wise by Amantha Imber she discusses the three main types of people and their alertness through various times of the day. It impacts when they are most productive for certain types of tasks. This has been written about in numerous other places but she summarises it really well:

Alarms lost in the noise

May 7, 2023

Adding an alert or alarm for a situation you need to monitor should be a good thing but sometimes, depending on how it is done, it can actually make things worse or at a minimum not work as expected.

Learning without action

May 6, 2023

Should all learning require an action?

I love to learn - I guess you might have worked that out from this blog. I spend a lot of my spare time reading books, listening to podcasts or watching videos.