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2023-03-25: Finished reading: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki πŸ“š

2023-03-23: Finished reading: The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason πŸ“š

2023-03-19: Finished reading: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

2023-03-19: Finished reading: Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt πŸ“š

2023-03-17: Finished reading: Superhuman by Habit by Tynan πŸ“š

2023-03-15: Finished reading: The Organised Writer by Antony Johnston πŸ“š

2023-03-12: Finished reading: The Outward Urge by John Wyndham πŸ“š

2023-03-12: LibraryThing πŸ“š On 25th November 2011 I paid the princely sum of $25 for lifetime membership of LibraryThing. At the …

2023-03-03: Finished reading: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

2023-03-02: It often took me a whole morning of work to write a paragraph. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway …

2023-02-22: It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute by half with water and still receive its message. …

2023-02-17: Shameless plug for my son’s new website! Whilst at University he wrote film reviews for the campus …

2023-02-16: When I was writing, it was necessary for me to read after I had written. If you kept thinking about …

2023-02-15: Has anyone read The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer? I enjoyed it, but there’s something …

2023-02-15: Finished reading: The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer πŸ“š

2023-02-09: Keep thinking I should be writing something then I wonder what? I need to remind myself I’m on …

2023-01-28: Finished reading: Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick πŸ“š

2023-01-18: Finished reading: Chocky by John Wyndham πŸ“š

2023-01-01: Finished reading: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien πŸ“š

2022-12-30: Finished reading: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler πŸ“š

2022-12-22: Finished reading: Molly and the Isle of Kasta by Nicholas Bate πŸ“š

2022-12-09: I stumbled across this article from Robert Breen. In fact it may have been one of the good folks …

2022-12-06: Finished reading: The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer πŸ“š

2022-11-18: Finished reading: 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute by Richard Wiseman πŸ“š

2022-11-14: Finished reading: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni πŸ“š

2022-11-12: As a lifelong music fan, some of my happiest and most vivid memories are from live music events. It …

2022-11-12: Finished reading: The Child in Time by Ian McEwan πŸ“š

2022-11-09: How times change…. This is a Facebook post from when I first started to get disillusioned with the …

2022-11-09: Finished reading: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek πŸ“š …

2022-11-03: Building a System that Nurtures Creativity in Non-Creatives One of my biggest challenges is creativity. As a left-brain person I’m pretty good at evaluation, …

2022-11-02: Phase one of my Books Read page is complete. Everything I’ve logged as read on LibraryThing is …

2022-10-30: Top 100 Songs I first published a list of my 100 favourite songs on my old Wordpress site back in 2010. I revisit …

2022-10-30: Furniture shopping today πŸŽƒ The pumpkin is there so I get the pin!

2022-10-28: With so many smart thinkers and creators on the micro.blog platform it’s tricky to see where I …

2022-10-28: Finished reading: The Psychology Of Money by Morgan House πŸ“š

2022-10-27: Finished reading: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

2022-10-18: Resolutions More act, less think More create, less consume More laugh, less worry More kind, less right More …

2022-10-16: How I Catalogue My Music How I catalogue my music has evolved since I first started doing it over 10 years ago. In this …

2022-10-12: How I Use Lists in IMDb I started using IMDb as soon as I discovered it in 1998, shortly before its acquisition by Amazon. …

2022-07-14: Finished reading: Free Will [Deckle Edge] by Sam Harris πŸ“š

2022-07-08: Thanks to @patrickrhone for sharing this Running Up That Hill (acapella) by MayTree – Rhoneisms

2022-06-26: In the 21st century it’s hard to believe this was a real job. I guess it’s a good …

2022-06-25: Finished reading: On Writing by Stephen King πŸ“š

2022-05-30: Finished reading: Traction by Gino Wickman πŸ“š

2022-05-09: Finished reading: Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable … Your Journey to Get Real, Get …

2022-04-29: Finished reading: Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

2022-02-24: Finished reading: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman πŸ“š

2022-01-07: Finished reading: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou πŸ“š Interesting that I read this in the same week the …

2022-01-03: Finished reading: Make Time by Jake Knapp πŸ“š

2021-12-21: A great observation by Cal Newport in his book Deep Work Busyness as Proxy for Productivity - in …

2021-12-20: I’ve been enjoying the Practically Paperless series of blog posts from Jamie Rubin. I first …

2021-12-19: Finished reading: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin …

2021-12-18: A great quote on the subject of storytelling from Show Your Work by Austin Kleon ’The cat sat on …

2021-12-18: Finished reading: Deep Work by Cal Newport πŸ“š

2021-11-24: Finished reading: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

2021-11-07: This morning I awakened to the realisation that despite the rhetoric of my internal dialogue, …

2021-10-15: Finished reading: Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa …

2021-07-20: One of the rock faces at Stanage Edge in the Peak District. Taken on a recent hike there.

2021-07-03: Only 5 minutes from home. You’d be forgiven for thinking it was in the middle of the countryside

2021-07-02: Nice surprise when we were hiking in the Peak District

2021-06-30: It was one of those long meetings that drew few conclusions.

2021-06-30: A great question posed by Peter Thiel in his book Zero to One > What important truth do very few …