I’ve been reading the excellent The Price of Life and was so inspired I thought I would take a sober look at the cost of changing hormones. Because noone is writing about this in the Guardian but they should. Before being ‘allowed’ to start HRT*: £4074/year 2 big bottles of magnesium tablets to try to… Continue reading The change tax? (looking at the cost of the perimenopause)
Project Mordenite (what if Small Language Models improved the way we hire? )
A couple of months ago, after writing a few blog posts about hiring and job descriptions, I started working on an idea with Jim Kosem and Matt Webb. We called it Project Mordenite. Here are some of the ideas we had: The importance of being specific: The more senior a role, the more tempting it… Continue reading Project Mordenite (what if Small Language Models improved the way we hire? )
Sunday Scraps #96
Someone should make a documentary based on the life of Hong Kong photographer Nancy Sheung / I don’t understand what the eel collective does but it sounds interesting / bookmarking this article on car-free Devon for future long weekends / a friend told me about asafoetida in indian cuisine / theheat.io climate conference in Oxford… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #96
Out of sight, out of mind (thoughts on professional practice for designers)
I’ve been offering free CV reviews for graduates and thinking about ‘professional practice’. The proliferation of design diplomas means new graduates are spat out of a one year degree with a weaker portfolio than most and an inflated expectation of how much work is out there for them. If there are plenty of design courses,… Continue reading Out of sight, out of mind (thoughts on professional practice for designers)
Sunday Scraps #95
The anxiety of living makes us want to judge, be sure, have a stance, definitively decide. Having a fixed, rigid system of belief can be a great relief. – A Swim in a Pond in the Rain If you want a quiet week, don’t read the history of Mandatory Palestine / I loved this short… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #95
Sunday Scraps #94
I wish I’d grown up with Pina Bausch / instead you can find me at Julie’s jive classes on Monday nights / going to watch this 1994 documentary about the late Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène / the inventor of the television lived in Crystal Palace near a Tecton beauty / there’s a clock museum down… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #94
Sunday Scraps #93
I committed a horrible faux pas today. I apologised to those concerned of course but in those moments I remind myself of this 17th century nun’s prayer / I’m annoyed I missed this exhibition about shade / thinking about popping into Bruxelles to see the Fondation Folon on a daytrip / beautiful AI ‘painted’ typography… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #93
Gameshows and phone calls (a perimenopausal update)
I’ve been on HRT for 3 months and it’s been good but not great. Joint pain and heart palpitations are gone but the quality of my sleep in the week leading up to my period is still bad. So I went back to my group practice and saw the same GP again. Now, everyone’s experience… Continue reading Gameshows and phone calls (a perimenopausal update)
Sunday Scraps #92
This New Yorker article about children who go ‘no contact’ made me think a lot about my own experience so I might write about it some day / I finally got round to watching Showgirls and The Piano Teacher / I had some garibaldi biscuits for the first time / we need more niche digital design… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #92
Sunday Scraps #91
Junkyard Dogs looks very good but grim / this piece of investigative journalism about the real story behind the Salt Path heroes deserves a Netflix doco / this Filipino bakery in Battersea is amazing / was poet David Whyte the OG ‘mental health and wellbeing at work’ guru? / the interesting landscape work of Colombian practice… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #91