My day job is with the University of Oxford, working in the administration. Two recent developments have shone a light on what in retrospect, is a fundamental truth about organisations that should have been obvious to me long since: The excellence of an organisation is not dependent on the excellence of its parts. There are … Continue reading Misunderstanding Excellence: relating the parts to the whole
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How financial services companies can enable rather than disable their neurodivergent customers and those with a mental illness
Do you long to get back to the hustle and bustle of an office? Or are you hoping that your employer will have realised the value of allowing people to spend more of their time working at home? If you are like me, then your answer is probably along the lines of, "Both. And neither." … Continue reading Co-working Alone: Tomorrow’s Shared Work Spaces
Every body is different; every body has different needs; every person has different desires, aspirations, and potential for their body; Whatever those needs, aspirations, desires, and potentials are the means to train the body to attain them should be freely available to all.Societies should do everything possible to ensure every form of exercise available to … Continue reading An Open Access Manifesto for Training the Body
I've put off writing about my progress training for the One Day challenge for a couple of weeks now because I just couldn't find the right way in. There are so many things I want to capture - what it is I'm finding hard, without suggesting I'm hard done by or failing to acknowledge the … Continue reading Turning Inward
This is something I talked about recently. I've been giving a lot of thought to why it is that I reach sticking points I just can't get past, and one tactic I've decided to try this year is to take a step right back and begin again from the start with some of the things … Continue reading Going Forward by Going Back: My First Press Up at 49
This is a little insight into how I approach learning new things. I hope it's helpful for anyone taking on a new challenge in 2021. I'll be starting with memory, speed cubing, and trying to chip away at my 1 kilometre run time. For every discipline I take on in my One Day Like This … Continue reading How I Learn
Most of us who take up a hobby have this shared experience. Especially those of us who turn out to be good at whatever that hobby is, maybe start competing. Or at the very least pushing ourselves to see how good we can get. At some point we reach a plateau. We hit that level … Continue reading Beating the Plateaus
Last time I talked about the strange direction/lack of direction Rogue Interrobang has taken this year. This time I want to talk about my more personal challenges. I will be talking about weight loss and exercise. Hurst Hill, Cumnor (from Wikipedia) One thing I have found is that while my mind has at times slowed … Continue reading A Year in Mind and Body
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