Your comment on names and fraud is interesting, because I wrote a blog post just about that.

I completely agree with you on the hearsay/statistics idea. What is actually going on: we don’t know. I don’t think women are at disadvantage once established in the field, but I think there is a gateway type of thing going on…

When Your Life is Like a Tornado Mating with an Earthquake

Watch Out for the Random Variables

Put you trust in money, real estate, God, spouse, or wheat grass juice and watch the money dry up, the market tank, God is proved dead, the spouse wanders and toxins…

Remember, you are antifragile

Antifragile is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Yeah, it is a must-read book. But in the following paragraphs I am going to explain what it means to me and how it applies to you.

You surely spelled it out clearly enough, Tim. You know they won’t listen. I know they won’t listen. Others are beginning to see that also. They want to do it their way. Radio Shack (in the US, Tandy elsewhere) carried out an intensive study on Customer reactions. They discovered that one unsatisfied customer lost them 17 (potential) others. Here we…

Problems that motivate me

I have been very lucky in the months since I left mySociety, in that I have been in a position to take plenty of time to read, write and think deeply about what to do next with my life. Talking to my friends before I left I became aware of just how rare it is, as an adult, to be…

Life Problems

My spiritual guide tells me that problems are food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is simply me not accepting life on life’s terms. I have no problems, simply issues I am not accepting as they are. If a situation is lacking, I am not bringing enough to it.