Day 70 – 17 April 2014 and day 15 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. I am a congenital optimist, I just can’t help myself. Maybe I was born with it. My glass is always half full, the grass is always greener on my side of the fence and life is a string of … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 70 (Optimist)
A year of work in progress – day 69 (Newton)
Day 69 – 16 April 2014 and day 14 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. This should really have been called: Newton’s laws of motion and the role of physics in local government part 4 Sir Isaac Newton was a clever man. His laws of motion were first compiled in his work Philosophiæ Naturalis … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 69 (Newton)
A year of work in progress – day 68 (Minutes or Mitra)
Day 68 – 15 April 2014 and day 13 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Why Mitra? Sugata Mitra is a professor of educational technology at Newcastle University. He is developing the school in the cloud that brings learning to everyone irrespective of wealth and social standing. He’s developed learning labs in two schools … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 68 (Minutes or Mitra)
A year of work in progress – day 67 (Learning to live, learning to play)
Day 67 – 14 April 2014 and day 12 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Before I start, lunch is a useful weapon, learn to use it wisely. In a previous piece ‘Learning to Play’ , I described how in our doctors’ surgery there is a small wooden box that sits in the waiting … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 67 (Learning to live, learning to play)
A year of work in progress – day 66 (Home cover)
Day 66 – 9 April 2014 and day 8 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. The insurance market in the UK is dysfunctional. It works well, there’s lots of competition but it is still dysfunctional. I say this because every time my insurance is due for renewal I have to go through the same … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 66 (Home cover)
A year of work in progress – day 65 (Gestation)
Day 65 – 8 April 2014 and day 7 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. It’s the panda breeding season. It’s the time of year when love is in the air for Tian Tian and Yang Guang, the Edinburgh pandas (and presumably all other pandas) and soon we may hear the patter of tiny … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 65 (Gestation)
A year of work in progress – day 64 (Flow)
Day 64 – 7 April 2014 and day 6 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. We need to think more about flow. Work should flow through our organisations. Ideas and opportunities should fall like rain and gather in streams and rivulets before coming together in a mighty river, sucked to the sea by the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 64 (Flow)
A year of work in progress – day 63 (Dutch)
Day 63 – 4 April 2014 and day 4 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Learning Dutch is number ten on my ‘Ten things I’m going to achieve this year’. Why? Because it’s there. Actually it’s a little more than that. I enjoy learning languages even though I don’t think I’m very good at … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 63 (Dutch)
A year of work in progress – day 62 (Cakes)
Day 62 – 3 April 2014 Day 61 and day 3 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. I like baking cakes. I think that I’m quite good at it, I’m certainly better at them than I am with pastry. We have a cake club at work #cakeclub. Actually there are three of us who … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 62 (Cakes)
A year of work in progress – day 61 (Braille)
Day 61 – 2 April 2014 and day 2 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Today I want to talk about braille burgers but before I do I must mention Benny the Irish Polyglot only because he is such an inspiration. He has a simple mantra for learning a language and that is to … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 61 (Braille)
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 