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The Best Sailors Navigate via the Stars – Writing Objectives
Last year after a swimming race, a group of us were standing by the warm-down pool talking loudly about USRPT (ultra short race pace training) – the next big thing, maybe. A friend of mine – who is a competitor of mine but who also coached me for a short while – stubbornly insisted that […]
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WFH and the Misery or Mastery of One’s Work
Whilst re-reading the book, “How to make yourself miserable”, I realised that my current home office set up is much closer to the “perfect room for being miserable” than it is as a place to do high quality work. But, upon reflection, my open plan office wasn’t much better either. In fact, the open plan […]
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How Good Pricing Built Hamlet’s Castle
This is a short story about the history of value and pricing. Between the shores of modern day Denmark and Sweden, there is a slim body of water only a couple of miles wide. Hundreds of years ago, merchant ships sailed to and fro between the Baltic Sea and North sea, carrying their cargo to […]
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Agile and Sushi
There’s a nice documentary about a sushi chef called Jiro who owns a Sushi joint in a metro station subway. It just so happens to have three Michelin stars which, by definition, means you would travel around the world just to go to the restaurant – it’s that good. At one point in the documentary […]
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An Exchange of Value
Last night, I spent the evening looking around my grandmother’s house to see what I could keep for nostalgic reasons and (don’t tell anyone) but I was also rooting around to see if I could find some booty that has some value. In a week or so the whole lot is going to get chucked. […]
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