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Six times in six years
Over the course of the past 7 days I’ve run a marathon, celebrated my wife’s birthday, and moved into a new house. It’s been a busy month, but that’s nothing compared to the past 6 years.
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One month and “some change”
July 25th was our last day in Scotland. It’s been one month and some change (pun intended) since we packed up the last of our belongings and moved (back) to the US from Scotland almost exactly 5 years to the day that we originally moved there in 2019. I promised it would be our last…
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I’m going part-time starting next month
After many years now of my wife bouncing between not working, being self-employed, and working part-time, she’s now about to start working full-time. We have two young kids and made the decision early on that we don’t want to be a family where both parents work full-time. We’re not judging those that do; it’s just…
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From Permafrosted to permamuddy
Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.
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What I learned last week (#53 and #54)
Learned last week: the history of a kitchen classic, live music rules, books I read in 2019, go outside first, and more.
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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…
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What I learned last week (#32)
Learned last week: big change can be done, downsizing is hard, practice alone is not enough, and more.
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What I learned last week (#21)
Learned last week: Many of us are late bloomers, mindfulness has pitfalls, and podcasts haven’t killed music (at least for me).
Writing and drawings by Nick.
