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You don’t have to live where you were born. Find a place where you feel like it’s ok to be you and a group of people who like you and share your values.

Navigating my city’s public transport with a stroller also gave me new appreciation of how difficult it must be for people in a wheelchair. There are only a handful of step free st…

Food labs actually levelled up my cooking to the next level. So many great recipes and ideas. It was a very readable book too, I pretty much read it cover to cover. The best thing …

Good on your mother for persisting until she got to the bottom of the brownie mystery! It’s a bit of a pity the company tampered with such a successful recipe! My brownie recipe is…

I have Fridays off to spend with my kids too. It's really nice. I've always found it quite difficult to switch off, but after three days with the kids I go back to work refreshed a…

Success is fun and should be celebrated. It's definitely something that's nice to achieve from time to time. What is problematic is when you look for something in success that succ…

I met many of my local friends in a cafe here. We all have small kids, which give you a very easy opportunity to talk to people you don't know and make it difficult to spend time w…

It's a little bit dated now, but the C2 wiki is a fun place to read about software development. There are quite a lot of patterns, anti-patterns, practices, rambling debates and ju…

The group of people you're working with may not be as mutable as you think. I've been working in my programming language community in the city where I live for about ten years. The…

I have an anecdote about my experience not working for a long period of time. Sounds like I'm in quite a different place in my life to you but I hope you don't mind me sharing and …

I bought a Fitbit because I wanted to nudge my physical activity from sedentary into not noteworthy. I've been wearing it about three months and it has helped me do that. The other…

Or someone else in your team who tried to make the change last time it came around, who has now left and lives in another time zone.

I do UK to Australia every other year. I started in my early twenties and am now mid thirties. I've found jetlag has gotten worse as I've got older. I hardly felt it when I was 21!…

I think it's difficult because no one particular change is a problem and in isolation they are mostly completely reasonable. It's the accumulation of these changes that cause the c…

I have started sending samples to my kindle as a kind of place holder for books I'd like to read when I have time. It's saved me heaps of money!

I've got ten years of photos on Flickr and have been a paying subscriber almost that long. For me my Flickr is my story of the past ten years: moving to the UK, share housing, meet…

I've always had to do that in the UK. Your previous employer gives you a form called a P45 when you leave that has information about your tax code and your earnings for the previou…