The last few months have been a bit hectic, let's say that.
In work, a few things happened. I got promoted to 'Director', which is the top end of the management progression, bottom of executive. What either of these mean, I'll probably never know. About a year or so …
Category: Log Tagged: log life
Read MoreThis is something I wrote for new Googlers, drinking from the information hose. It's not formally part of the onboarding process, but enough people email me about it that I suspect it's passed around a lot informally.
(With Apologies to Mary Schmich)
Everybody's Free (To Use Their Best Judgment)
Category: Writing Tagged: writing
Read MoreThis is a paper I wrote for consumption of people doing conferences and trainings at Google. I figured it was more generally applicable, so here it is: Conferences for Introverts
Category: Writing Tagged: writing conferences introverts
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I was away last week with work to an offsite at the Club Med, which as far as I can gather is one of those soviet-era collective holiday camps for people who weren't in a soviet. I bet the soviets never had nespresso on demand.
Bizarrely, the weather in Ireland …
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The weather turns and turns. We're well into the season where things spring out, and make you cut them back, or just be happy they're there. Our garden has rhubarb. Enough for a tiny put of jam, or perhaps a Mr. Kipling's style rhubarb tartlet or two.
It also is …
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