I may be finally giving up on my productivity ideals, after four years of living with the time hoovers that are children. It’s just not working – the weekly review…
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At the bank, you can’t use Todoist or Notion, the two cornerstones of my current productivity tech stack. Especially Notion has been a blow, so I briefly considered how feasible…
I got unjustifiably angry with the three-year-old yesterday morning and have some reflections. The situation arose from the two of us following separate but equally unmovable agendas – I, getting…
I’m reading Oliver Burkeman’s much-recommended Four Thousand Weeks and I’m not really sure about it. It’s highly relevant to me as I’m exactly the kind of person he often uses…
The boys have continued their tag-teaming efforts to keep us up at night: when it’s not one of them screaming his head off it’s the other. I can’t remember when…
One recent epiphany I had while mulling over where my time goes was that I could do more with my mornings. I was staying up late, not doing anything particularly…
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…
Unbelievably, we were hit by another round of a stomach bug on the weekend. This one was the real deal as well. I changed the sheets to the baby’s cot…
I first heard of the principle of ‘slack in the system’ on the Operations module of the MBA. The lecturer used the example of how different airports were able to…
I’ve been bested by conjunctivitis – a theoretically minor infection which has nonetheless thrown me off my rhythm and made everything feel overwhelming. It’s not the fault of conjunctivitis that…