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Jun 21, 2021

Sometimes I move, sometimes I am the mover

Yesterday I walked down a busy street and I didn’t walk into anyone. Sometimes I moved, sometimes I was the mover. My walk was an unthinkable dance of weaving, turning course, striding, all at the right moments. It could not be planned and it cannot be replicated. …

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Jun 2, 2021

What does this remind you of?

When I feel like I’ve had a new breakthrough idea the second thing I like to ask people after I’ve explained it to them is ‘what does this remind you of?’ My default assumption is that that not much I will ever think will be original. How can living, thinking…

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What does this remind you of?
What does this remind you of?

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Jun 1, 2021

Nobody Thinks I Am Working Today

Nobody thinks I am working today, because Monday 31st May 2021 is a Bank Holiday. Even when you are freelance there’s an assumption that you take Bank Holidays. Some do, some don’t, some can’t. I like to work because nobody thinks I am working. The days you spend pleasure-working like…

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Jul 16, 2020

How to give great online feedback

Probably one of the best things we can all get better at right now is giving written feedback. In this time of remote working and zoom fatigue, much more of our conversations have become asynchronous. …

Zoom Fatigue

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Zoom Fatigue

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Apr 4, 2020

The 8 hour work day is bad for everyone — this is our chance to change it.

The time to stop pretending we’re robots with an 8-hour long ability to focus is here. — For as long as I remember I have been afflicted with a curse that I’m sure many of you also struggle with: I am a nightowl. Being a nightowl has been very uncomfortable in a society where most of the jobs I have wanted to do, and most of my…

Work

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The 8 hour work day is bad for everyone — this is our chance to change it.
The 8 hour work day is bad for everyone — this is our chance to change it.
Work

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Jan 31, 2020

Today is my last day as an EU Citizen.

In 2012 I was a struggling truant at school in Bedford when the EU changed my life. A small part of what the EU does (in various ways) is fund youth organisations to come together and share best practice, learn and discuss. I had been involved for about a year…

Eu

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Eu

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Jan 7, 2020

Catalyst project: Design Hops

An introduction to digital and design processes for charitable organisations. — General details Outcome area: Network Phases: Delivery Timeframe: Ongoing Doing the work: CAST — To develop and refine workshop content Partners — To promote to their networks and kickstart or bolster regional ecosystem development CREW — Cross-sector, cross-UK facilitators, responding to needs and networks local to them

Digital

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Catalyst project: Design Hops
Catalyst project: Design Hops
Digital

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Dec 20, 2019

What I’m reading this holiday

As 2019 draws to an end I’m going to be giving myself a whole two weeks off completely (today is my last day). As well as lots of rest and social time I’m looking forward to, I really want to use the time off work to properly read several of…

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What I’m reading this holiday
What I’m reading this holiday

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Oct 30, 2019

What Does A General Election Mean for the Charity Sector?

Spoiler alert: it means a lot. — So, there we have it — the election many of us suspected was bubbling up will finally come to pass on December 12th 2019 (baring no surprises from the House of Lords). This General Election means a lot of things to our country, to our exhaustion and optimism levels, and…

Politics

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What Does A General Election Mean for the Charity Sector?
What Does A General Election Mean for the Charity Sector?
Politics

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Sep 11, 2019

Silent Meetings

I’m pretty obsessed with organisational psychology, for an organisation of exactly one person. One of my favourite podcasts I use an an introduction to workplace culture tweaks to follow up on in more depth is Eat, Sleep, Work Repeat. This week’s episode introduced me to the apparently oxymoronic ‘silent meeting’. …

Meetings

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Meetings

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