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Finding your dads work in a museum

It is an interesting experience to find the work your dad did being exhibited in a museum.


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The seagull data centre algorithm

Could studying the habits of seagulls lead to better cloud computing approaches?


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Fatherly wisdom

Today my daughter turns 18 years old. Wow, time flown has by.


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The first pictures from space

It turns out the first pictures taken from space were not initially planned.


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Numbers for managing teams

Sometimes you come across an article that makes you think. The article, Numbers To Know For Managing Software Teams, made me do that.


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Annual life review

I recently had the scenario where I had to use up a few days holiday before they would expire. I decided to hire and cottage and go walking. Unfortunately due to a stomach bug this didn’t go quite as planned however the other aim was to conduct a life review and assess what I wanted to achieve over the coming year.


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Free learning list

The freelearninglist.org website identifies the best education resources for each type of platform.


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Picking ideas

I have a file with 400+ ideas for businesses, products, books, etc. So finding ideas is relatively easy. However validating and picking ideas is more of a challenge.


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Decide who decides

As many of my posts start, I was listening to a podcast. This was a startup founder who was talking about the company she started with a partner and how they handled decisions where the two of them didn’t agree about something.


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Strategies for starting something new

Most people struggle with the blank page and starting something new. This episode of the podcast Spark & Fire has snippets from interviews with 5 different people and how they start something new or overcome writers block.


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