Tag: learning

  • What I learned last week (#65)

    What I learned last week (#65)

    Learned last week: 50 things to do, stories you need, a talk about self-renewal, and more.

  • Get a helmet

    Get a helmet

    I got Sam this race car helmet from the gift shop at the Glasgow Museum of Transport recently (an awesome place to go by the way). Museum gift shops are a guilty pleasure, I always find something I want that’s usually overpriced, and the kids always seem to as well. However, this helmet was only…

  • Books I read in 2019

    Books I read in 2019

    I counted 21 for 2019, not bad considering I have a tendency to get stuck on books I don’t like (and am working hard on that).

  • What I learned last week (#48)

    What I learned last week (#48)

    Learned last week: Touch typing, a debug mindset, napping is healthy, and more.

  • A refreshing change

    A refreshing change

    As part of our recent move to Scotland, I resigned from Microsoft after 13 years of being at the company and I recently started new work as a support engineer (aka Happiness Engineer) with a company called Automattic, a company that’s so different it’s hard to see a resemblance past the fact that they are…

  • A debug mindset

    A debug mindset

    I came across this image (from a Julia Evans tweet) last night and I was thinking about it a lot today. Although it’s about software debugging it’s applicable to hard problems of any kind.

  • What I learned last week (#39)

    What I learned last week (#39)

    Learned last week: More reasons to minimize email, being a one issue voter and the creator vs victim mindset.

  • What I learned last week (#36)

    What I learned last week (#36)

    Learned last week: Kids learn fast, habits need to be formed before they can be optimized, you don’t need a rarefied job, and more.