Occi is unwell. Not badly, but she has a bad case of the sniffles, and while it hasn’t dampened her spirits, it has made life a little bit tougher. We’ve been lucky so far in avoiding illness, but it was only a matter of time. The little girl darts around the floor, army crawl style,…

Today was a GREAT day at work. Which is a very good thing, because the last two weeks I have been feeling a little flat about it. Not sad, not willing to quit. Just not that excited, a bit hom hum. It was leading to a poor effort, which meant my work got a little…

My parents are/were keen bushwalkers. One of Dad’s favorite sayings was “90% of people who get lost bushwalking do so from the carpark”. I don’t know how true that is, but it seems directionally correct, and applies to more than just hiking. After spending three hours trying to get a new project setup in my…

I am a third of the way through Nate Silver’s latest book, and it has had me thinking about risk-taking. The biggest thing I have taken from it so far is that people are not taking enough risk, or more accurately, they’re not taking appropriate risks. What is a good risk? Well, at its most…

I received an email today from LinkedIn, saying I had just clocked up thirteen years on the platform. It certainly hasn’t been memorable. LinkedIn gets a lot of hate, and understandably so. Some of the most inane, masturbatory, and try-hard behaviour bubbles up on the site far too often, see Exhibit A below. But some…

Ky and I try to make a priority of date night, so it was magnificent to leave a sleeping Occi with the grandparents, and head off to our local cocktail bar. They do a great job, but the real fun is spending some time together to chat and focus on being husband and wife, not…