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We are Kindred

DRACULA: You are magnificent. 
BUFFY: I bet you say that before you bite all the girls. 
DRACULA: No, you are different. Kindred. 
BUFFY: Kindred? Hardly, I-

Buffy is one of my favourite shows. For some reason I can watch it over and over again. One of the greatest scenes is…

The Why Matters

What makes you excited? What drives you on to make it through a long and complex project? Is it a great leader who inspires, a…

Stop re-work. Open source your designs

In a nutshell, my work as a Civil designer relies on having access to a toolbox of standard…

Is too much freedom a bad thing?

Remember the old days when file names had to be short? I do, and it certainly was frustrating. But was…

Do Work You Give a Shit About

Too many people seem to be working in jobs they hate, simply to earn money to buy stuff they don’t need…

If its not good. It fails

Is a purely functional product going to be successful? Why does good product have to involve an element of…

Automating infrastructure design

Who doesn’t love the old 80’s and 90’s sci-fi movies like Tron & Lawnmower Man? Work would be…

Better to have loved and lost vs the fear of losing.

Lord Alfred Tennyson quipped the lines fantastic…

Improve communication via Virtual Reality

Who watched Lawnmower Man, the 1992 futuristic sci-fi flick, and found themselves…