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This is my public journal. Blogging is meant to be good for the soul, so we’ll see how it goes.

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Seventy excuses

February 15, 2017

I was having dinner with a friend recently (let’s call her Annie), when conversation turned briefly to a mutual acquaintance (let’s call her Jane). Annie voiced an issue she had with Jane, paraphrased loosely as: I don’t like Jane. I saw her in the corridor the other day, and smiled at her, but she completely […]

The secret to success

January 11, 2017

The secret to success is to pick something, and work on it for 10 years. I came across this quote in a Y Combinator interview with Courtland Allen, who made an amazing website/community called Indie Hackers. I think he attributed the quote to ‘some guy on Twitter’, and that’s where the trail ends. As soon as he said that […]

Getting over the fear of personal blogging

January 16, 2016

The idea of setting up a personal blog has been swirling around in my head for some time, but I’ve never before managed to shake the nagging suspicion that to write about my own experiences, ideas, life etc, would be unbelievably narcissistic and should therefore be avoided at all costs. However, I recently came across Derek […]

Expectations/Hopes vs Training

January 8, 2016

We don’t rise to the level of our expectations/hopes, we fall to the level of our training. – Archilochus I came across this quote a few days ago, and it really resonated with me, so I thought I’d write this. I tend to come across quotes/cliches like this quite frequently, and given that “the secrets […]

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