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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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Flow and ecstacy
I’ve read about “Flow” before but never really thought of the architect of this phrase or notion, much less that he would still be alive. Well he is very much alive in the shape of Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi and his talk at TED is a reminder that, above a certain amount (often only a few thousand £/year higher than the minimum …
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Annika's leaving do
Could there be a Chief Executive more popular than our outgoing Annika Small? She proved why she is so admired and so sought after in a valedictory speech that was characteristic in all its eloquence, sincerity and self-deprecation. And then we gave her this (I’ve spared you most of it): [flv]anarchy_edit.flv[/flv] Cheerio Annika; in spite of this shambolic tribute, you’ve …
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My most valuable skill
Back in 2000 when my illustrious time in academia culminated in a degree in music, sending me ignominiously into the world of work with barely a saleable skill to my name, my parents very kindly paid for me to take a summer computing course with Pitman Training. The course was designed to teach me the ropes: Windows 98, Word, Excel …
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Why should websites say where they're based?
Why should a website — especially one selling a service — tell people where they’re based? After all, it’s a global community. Here’s why: even though I could do business with a freelancer in Queensland I’d much rather do it with someone in the UK (it’s not a prejudice, it’s practical!), better still, someone just down the road. I think …
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