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Day 152
Firstly last week was a bank holiday and I had my in-laws in town. So I just sacked off writing something. It’s the last day of May and summer is doing it’s best to become a thing in the UK. As my mind turns to holidays and longer evenings I also thought about how some of us started off so well inte...
The Hedonic Treadmill: 4 Ways to DNF
In a quite miraculous turn of events, it is yet another sunny Friday here in London! London in the sun is a fantastic place to be and on Sunday the streets of east london will be full of thousands of runners taking part in the Hackney Half Marathon. I will be one of them. I don’t think I’m on for a ...
Don't Call it A Comeback
Let's try this again Joseph Yau-Schofield May 10, 2024 It’s a sunny Friday in London so lets kick things off. Subscribed Mini Monthly Misogi I recently heard about Misogi twice in a 7 day period, once at lunch with Michael Rogerson-Smith and once on the MFM pod. I was sold. Especially as I had a tri...
S2 E1 - A New Beginning
So I started this blog last year with the intention of posting once a week on Fridays. I managed two posts and then left it unloved for over a year. In that time I’ve often thought about writing something but more often found excuses not to. To be fair me and my wife did have a baby which was kinda ...
Friday Roundup S1 Ep2
EMHApai - Elon Musk Hates Acronyms (probably also Initialisms)On my run yesterday I was listening to the wonderful podcast No Stupid Questions with Angela Duckworth (her of Grit fam) and Stephen Dubner (him of Freakonomics fame). And they brought up this email from Elon Musk which he sent to all sta...
Friday Roundup
Email is basically LL Cool JYesterday Hubspot announced it will acquire The Hustle, hot on the heels of Twitter acquiring Revue - Email is making a comeback. Not really surprising given that it's probably still the best way to communicate 1:1 with your customers. Email gives you the opportunity to c...
A New Beginning
Everyone thought we got cancelled after the pilot but turns out we just had a really lazy writer... Joseph Yau-Schofield May 06, 2022 So I started this blog last year with the intention of posting once a week on Fridays. I managed two posts and then left it unloved for over a year. In that time I’ve...