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…

A short one today, Happy Birthday to America! We live in abundant times!

It’s either very hot or miserably cold in your part of the world right now, and perhaps you’re thinking about some respite over the holiday period. Or perhaps you’re like most people, and haven’t really thought about it at all. I thought I’d get a jump on it this year, and beat the rush. While…