Category: Starting Up and Breaking Down
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Communication issues: Starting Up Without Breaking Down 4
Mentally ill and neurodivergent innovators find it almost impossible to have their communication difficulties taken seriously without people judging every other area of their skillset.
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Signed, Sealed, Now to Deliver
On March 1st in the Ryle Room at the Faculty of Philosophy in Oxford University, we signed the (copious) paperwork and became a limited company, a spinout from Oxford University. It was a fabulous occasion, presided over, as you see, by Dugal the dugong, our company mascot. The highlight of the ceremony was the amazing…
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Disability Anxiety: Starting Up Without Breaking Down Part 4
The incorporation process has begun. Papers sit on my desk waiting to be signed once final passes have been made. This is, of course, ridiculously exciting. It also feels like an incredible responsibility. I have always been totally open about my mental health, and the struggles it has caused me. I speak at conferences and…
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The Search for My Pale Blue Dot
Starting up Without Breaking Down – Part 3 (Come to the launch in Oxford – event details as per the photo here) I was a young child in the 1970s, and in 1980, when I was 8, my life, like many others was changed forever by a television programme, Cosmos. At the time I would…
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Full Disclosure?
Part 2 of the Starting Up and Breaking Down series. What had started as an introductory note has ended up as a separate post. It probably serves as a useful preface for the series, which gets out there in one go why I am taking the approach I am with regard to talking openly about…
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Starting Up and Breaking Down
Becoming an Entrepreneur when you have Poor Mental Health: A Journey in Unknown Parts You are probably here because you know one of three sides to me. As very few people know all three, let me say a paragraphette about each. They will quickly make clear why I am keeping this very public diary. I…
Rogue interrobang 