Reading Time: 7 minutesWhen I resigned from my last permanent job, I felt like contracting was my best option. At the time, I said I’d share about it but I didn’t do it much, so I’m catching up here. What I liked The first thing should really be that, I’ve been in that… Read More »Reflecting on a year of contracting
Reading Time: 5 minutesWarning: there is a bit more venting in this post than usual. This is about how some people self-promote and show themselves to others in their social media bubble. Weeknotes everywhere If you are not familiar with the concept, you can learn more in this article: Weeknotes: what they are,… Read More »Dissonance and social media bubbles
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m in my third role this year, which is a personal record but looking back, once again, it was the right decision for me. This post is a little retro about the year. Work Resigning Twice this year, I left a place shortly after joining because even though it looked… Read More »2023 Retrospective
Reading Time: 3 minutesI did yes! But what I do during my time off is usually not what others would consider nice or fun, like spending most of my day re-doing my professional journey as a tube map. Mondays I have not been in a office for a long time now, but still… Read More »Did you have a nice weekend?
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn this post, I share about my experience as a speaker and reflections about online versus in person conferences. In part 2, I share separately highlights from the sessions I attended. In person versus online conference Before lockdown, I attended a few conferences including UX Scotland in 2019, but since… Read More »UX Scotland 2023 – part 1: Experience of it
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m in this nice phase where I’ve left a role and haven’t started the next one yet. My old laptop is packed, waiting to be picked up by a courier and the new one will arrive this week. At this point in time, I don’t have to worry about the… Read More »In between
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy weekend started Friday and we were changing the clocks. With the Twitter takeover, I started wondering if I should leave that space and this prompted a bigger reflexion about how I want to use my time and get informed. Social media, and even Internet were not a thing for… Read More »Changing the clock, getting some time back
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve just finished a lego set I had bought myself for Christmas: the typewriter, and today I was looking online for images of old sets I had as a kid from the 70s. This might bring back memories to others too. The typewriter It was a really good set, I’ve… Read More »Lego
Reading Time: 5 minutesI had an end of year review at work yesterday which prompted me to think back about my professional journey. 10 years ago I wasn’t in a good place. I had worked hard to build up my classes where I was teaching French to various groups. I was self-employed but… Read More »Looking back
Quite often now, when you create an account, you’re supposed to pick a question and enter your answer to it. There are many problems with this.
