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Not even remotely working
Well, in a few days hopefully! Meantime, today — remote working from Singapore — has been great. The first and last full working day of the trip — still plenty of loose ends to tie up, not least of which the forthcoming End Tax Haven Secrecy site launching 4 Feb (I’ll pause a moment whilst you bookmark the link and …
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Alain de Botton and a gentler philosophy of success
It often happens to me that, of the 2-3 TED talks I view in a week, one chimes strongly with a notion already playing on my mind, following a conversation or recent epiphany. And so it is with Alain de Botton’s ‘Gentler Philosophy of Success’ (below). I had been talking to Pete about some of the confidence-building training his company …
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I can't afford cheap either
Together with Andy Budd‘s recent post “Why I can’t afford cheap“, my enforced migration away from Lycos web hosting for one of my clients has got me thinking. About six years ago, when I first got into web design I bought up all my domains (e.g. timreader.co.uk) from Easily, for about £9.99 for 2 years. When I came to register …
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Rosamund Zander missed a possibility this morning
Not for the first time, Stephen Fry made an observation recently that has echoed through my activities of the following week. In Jonathan Ross’ comeback show he observed a (generalised) difference between Americans and English, the optimisim of one versus the defeatism of the latter. Indeed, as I recall Kate Fox writing in Watching the English, there’s an Eeyorishness about …
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It's never to late to repay a debt
Do you ever think back to people from your past to whom you owe a debt of gratitude — or perhaps an apology — but think too much time has passed, it would be odd. Or that as you’ve procrastinated this long, it can wait another month… year… ten years. I do. This heart-warming little story is a great reminder …
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