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I wish I'd discovered writing "Morning Pages" a lot earlier. I've been doing it for the last year, and it's helped me figure out much better solutions to so many issues in my life,…

I've been running ultras for a number of years now, and have suffered from many injuries, the worst being a stress fracture in my hip. The last time I saw a sports doctor, he gave …

Agreed. I hardly ever see my daughter in the morning but make sure that 99% of the time I'm home in time to put her to bed and read a story (she's 8), often it's at bedtime that an…

It’s not a city, but I’ve just spent 10 days working remotely from the Isle of Jura, population 200, off the west coast of Scotland. I work in finance as a programmer, and whilst o…

Reminds me of the fire starting birds in Vernor Vinges "Marooned in Realtime", awesome book.

What a great idea. I really struggle to plan sprints and projects just using lists. Also MS Project etc are just far too complicated for my small projects. I actually resorted to d…

Now I think about it, we started when she was about 2, leaving a marmite rice cake in a bowl outside her door, with a bottle of water (with a sports cap), that was just enough to d…

I "automated" (trained?) my kid to make her own breakfast at the weekends so I can sleep longer. Started when she was around 4, it's easier now she's 7. Lots of parallels with hack…

I found this series on the New York Review of Books website gives an understandable, and readable history of the main threads of discussion on this, http://www.nybooks.com/topics/o…

I'm a bit sceptical about the explanation for base10, especially in Europe. The UK changed from a base 12 money system in my lifetime, and the history of the metric system doesn't …

I'm a ultra distance runner and fairly regularly run for over 12 hours. One of the first things people normally ask is "don't you get bored", but honestly the concentration needed …

...which is what happened to most geeks I know who've tried, in fact this sums up their exploits rather well: https://m.xkcd.com/1570/

My first thought was "um, isn't that a window?" :)