Category: Wonderings
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Slow Writing for a Slow Friday
It wasn’t just a book; it wasn’t like any book I’d seen before, anyway. The secret (if you could call it that) was a short line of writing on the inside back cover, under the flyleaf. Lifting the stiff, faded paper, you could see the faint scrawl and just make out what it said. Go…
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Read Me
I bought a book called Read Me. I’ve read a bit of it, and looked at some of the pictures too. It’s making me happy, and do you know why? It is the voice of the copywriter, pretentious but mindfully so. That’s the best pretension: I know I sound like a bit of a douche saying this but that…
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A Piece from the Archives
This is something I wrote a long time ago, that never got used. So I thought I’d give it a home here. Bear in mind that after two years, some things may have changed. The links still work though! Too smart for your own good? The perils of overdesign Remember when the epitome of online…
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Collison Hayes at The House of St Barnabas
After work today I busted a move to London to meet my partner in life plans, Dan. I started working with Dan something like four years ago, when I joined the Yellsites Premium team. We were instantly compatible: both know-it-alls, both unwilling to consider that someone else’s opinion might be valid…but somehow we made a…
