My older son turned three at the end of the year, and it was the first time his birthday felt like what you think of as a kid’s birthday with…
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Every time I blink now the baby has made some kind of developmental leap. He’s grown into a strapping lad, even though his meals have started to get cut short…
Since having children I’ve changed my opinion on whether punctuality is a choice. Before: yes. Now: yes but really no. I read a post on LinkedIn recently that illustrates the…
I listened to the Waters Wavelength podcast’s episode on the Australian Stock Exchange’s decision to halt their long-running project to replace Chess, their old post-trade system, with a blockchain-based platform.…
I’ve been pondering what I heard someone say on Instagram about parenting. She said you can only ever have one of these three (when your children are around, presumably): peace,…
The baby has some verbal communication skills now. He can respond to questions by shaking his head (meaning ‘no’) or reaching his hand out (meaning ‘now’). He can say ‘nanna’…
The sentencing of Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos infamy this week gave me lots to think about. I’m broadly speaking a law-and-order conservative, so my sense of justice was rewarded by…
Various close brushes with events of life-altering potential have made me reflect on cliché things like ‘what really matters’. I’m a bad one for obsessive introspection and trying to lead…
It turns out it’s not ‘happy wife, happy life’, but ‘happy baby, happy life’. The baby, who is now fully walking, has been in a brilliant mood for about a…
I read something this morning in Sarah Hart-Unger’s blog that could have come from my keyboard (emphasis mine): But for whatever reason, I felt calm and maybe the kids followed…