An excellent source of ideas for how to improve is listening to what other people say, and overcoming our natural tendency to be defensive. [...]
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Topic: wet super computer
 Nigel  August 28th, 2009I used to have absurdly high expectations of other people. Sometimes I still do. I’m stupid. [...] Topic: reviews
Nigel August 27th, 2009First reactions after listening to each new album once, plus a random thought for the Kaiser Chiefs. [...] Topic: wet super computer
Nigel August 26th, 2009
Sometimes justice and a good result don't require a lawyer When you’re highly trained in one area and spend most of your life focussing on that way of thinking you can end up forgetting what else counts in life. Take law for instance. A lawyer has not just studied the law in depth but has also been soaked [...] Topic: monochrome and blue
Nigel August 24th, 2009As a teenager I started to experience chronic depression. This is part of how it felt, and what I learned. [...] Topic: monochrome and blue
Nigel August 21st, 2009Some people are chatting Some people are chatting. As you approach them you feel painfully self-conscious because they’re in a group and you’re on your own. You make a show of looking at your watch, and then speed up as if late for an appointment. Somehow walking faster feels better. As you’re passing they burst into laughter. You [...] Topic: monochrome and blue
Nigel August 19th, 2009Topic: random
Nigel August 18th, 2009Now there’s plenty to read on this blog I’m reducing from posting six days a week to three – half a cake… This will give me more energy to work on other writing, particularly the Adam Warner book ‘Adam : a fiercely unremarkable story’. If you’re new to reading blogs and want to know when a new post [...] Topic: teaching and learning
Nigel August 17th, 2009Topic: monochrome and blue
Nigel August 15th, 2009Topic: wet super computer
Nigel August 14th, 2009All too often new ideas that make significant improvements are rejected. Why does this happen? [...] Topic: wet super computer
Nigel August 13th, 2009So much that is obvious now was ground-breaking when first understood. How do we come up with really new idea? [...] Topic: monochrome and blue
Nigel August 12th, 2009This post links to the original stories and makes three important aspects clearer. [...] Topic: monochrome and blue
Nigel August 12th, 2009The media encourages us to lump together all people with schizophrenia as dangerous and to be locked up. This is seriously wrong. [...] Topic: random
Nigel August 11th, 2009Have you ever received one of those e-mails offering you money for nothing if you help someone abroad transfer a very large sum of money to your country? Because many of the early versions of this fraud came from Nigeria it’s been dubbed the Nigerian Scam. Want to know what the people running it are like? Karin [...] |
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