Listening to “Only Artists” on R4 this week Howard Goodall is describing the importance of breaking free from the “muscle memory” created through composing on the piano. Once your hands know where to go they tend to gravitate back there every time. It made so much sense when I thought about my own songwriting. Why […]
How To Make Life Easier
When the children were small they liked to paint, and the simplest way to minimise the mess was to buy a large roll of paper and cover the entire dining table with it. Wherever paint was daubed it didn’t matter. They could dip and brush with gusto creating enormous brightly coloured murals until the discipline […]
Why Size Doesn’t Matter
Like me, you’re probably sick to the back teeth of receiving requests from organisations asking permission to keep mailing you. If GDPR fatigue doesn’t exist I’m inventing it (I see that it does). In the end, it might well be apathy which decimates the size of mailing lists in Europes businesses rather than any deliberate […]
Why Being Busy Damages Productivity
Regular readers will be well aware that I recently got a puppy, and that she is keeping me busy. I missed having a dog, especially when going for walks through the leaves on bright autumn days like today. People look at you strangely when you are walking alone in the woods without a dog. So […]
How To Deal With Reality
My son made me laugh. He was creating his own reality in Minecraft which is, for the uninitiated, a sort of video Lego with knobs on. I was watching him harvest the sugar cane he had grown, and I asked him why he had grown so much. He told me he could cut it down and […]
