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Book Review: Hyperfocus

So it seems I’m on a bit of a productivity book binge at the moment, as fresh on the heels of Atomic Habits, I found myself diving right into Hyperfocus: How to manage your attention in a world of ...

Opi in all his glory

Trying again with an office plant

About 2 years ago I somewhat unintentionally became a houseplant person. As with many new hobbies, this rapidly spiralled out of control, so now the house is populated with approximately 25 plants ...

Maybe LLMs are a good thing for writing

A diplomat is a man who uses many more words than necessary to express much less than he knows. - Shilard Fitz-Oesterlen, Gwent - The Witcher Card Game A thought struck me the other day when w...

Write about nice things

Every now and then fate delivers a piece of evidence you really need to see, serendipitously just when you need to see it (or in Hollywood’s case, this actually happens all the time). So, as I was ...

Fun with atom feeds

One key criteria for me when choosing blogging platforms is having an easy to use RSS/Atom feed. Jekyll usually supports this pretty well out of the box, and the theme I chose does a pretty good jo...

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Book Review: Atomic Habits - James Clear

I’m normally somewhat sceptical of self-help guides as, while they often contain an interesting idea, meaningful exploration of this idea is usually not enough to fill a 200+ page book. Therefore, ...

A New Start

“I should start a blog” Great idea me! I’ve always had way to much too say about many things, and what better way to satisfy my inner blabbermouth than throwing those opinions out to the wider in...