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A large part of problem-solving is the ability to see a problem in its true form. If you're able to describe a problem in a sufficiently...

Are all promises worth the same? How do you know? If they aren't, how do you discern which ones are worth making, & which ones sho...

It's been just over two years since I started my role at Australia's largest infrastructure project. My title suggests I'm a fin...

It must be a common trait - we begin doing something, & before long, it is left by the wayside, ************* Ironically, I started...

For someone who works in finance & commercial, Microsoft's Excel & PPT are the glue that hold most organisations together. Forge...

The last few days, I've been spending a lot of time on teaching myself to think through problems in a different area. The course on Dee...

A lady sat down next to me on the train this morning. She was already on the phone when she got on the train. I knew because she had a disti...

Toastmasters had their World Championships of Public Speaking last week, over a 3-day period. Congratulations to Manoj Vasudevan, who won th...

Pessimistic? or cynical? Or healthy skeptic? Or as George Bernard Shaw pointed out: "The power of accurate observation is commonly cal...

Leonard Cohen. His magic with words . Cartoonists. Their ability to use so few words yet get their message so sharply across. Motivation...

The week gone by was peculiar. Someone apparently thought it worth their while to comment on the speed (or lack thereof) of my work. It go...

* credit for the title to the good folks over at the New Escapologist Three weeks of holiday from the humdrum of being employed. Three we...

Stuff I found interesting over this week. Your mileage may vary http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170612-why-you-should-manage-your-ener...

I'm tackling calculus, with Silvanus Thompson's Calculus Made Easy. A subject that I entirely detested, but have since found beauty ...

This weekend, for the first time in a while, we spent the time doing family things - binge watching some shows, eating, teasing one another,...

Last week, my wife insisted that I spend 45 minutes with her at the community exercise program on Monday morning. She's been going a few...

How much I hated the rote learning of formulas, especially when it came to trigonometry & calculus! For one, I didn't understand w...

My 10 year old taught me to do somersaults in the pool today. She was chuffed I could do it after drinking the pool a few times :) And then...

Your house is a just a pile of stuff with a cover over it - George Carlin A google search for decluttering brought up 1.9m results.  Th...

Time flies. It's two weeks into the New Year. That means enough time has passed for a large number of New Year Resolutions to have bee...