We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

It is the May Day public holiday today, to celebrate the start of spring. And despite it snowing a few days ago, it was almost twenty degrees today, which brought out all the folks into the Vappu markets.

For Christmas, I bought my wife a vase. Super boring I suppose, but it is a Finnish brand my wife likes, and she has wanted one for years. The problem is that it is quite large and we don't really have

Keep it simple, stupid. KISS It is a philosophy often suggested for design and communication, stating that things tend to work best when they are kept simple, avoiding unnecessary complication. It is common

Look into my eyes. Does it look like I give a fuck? They say the eyes are the window to the soul, but it is more that they are windows to our intention, telling how we feel, how much effort we are putting

I have liked playing around with some photos lately to make them look more like prints or posters - limited colour range, flattened, lots of saturation. relatively simple pictures with a bit of detail,

I was meant to be on-site training, but due to some scheduling issues, the sessions have been remote instead. I far prefer to speak to people face to face, despite the convenience of being able to use

I trust you. What does that really mean? From my perspective, it is about my opinion of you, which is a series of judgements based on assumptions that culminate in me making a decision; that my conclusions

"turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behaviour; it is complicity in the oppressor's crimes". This is what was said by the shooter in the US who tried to charge

The coming week will see my wife turn another year older, but it is a busy week so we went out bowling and to lunch together today instead of later. It was fun, since we haven't bowled together for several

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

Is it better to play it safe and fail small a lot, or take some risks on a big win and fail quickly? Does your answer change if it is in regards to governing a country? The government in Finland has become

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

My wife is working from home as she is ill, which I find a little crazy these days. In the past if you were too ill to go to work, you stayed home and rested. Now, there is an unwritten rule that you are

I have been running a few errands today, including picking up a couple glass containers from Ikea. I only went in for these and that is all I bought, other than some zip-lock bags (not large enough for

The UK has banned the sale of cigarettes forever to anyone born after 2008. Good. The UK isn't the only to do it, New Zealand did it a few years ago, but a year later it was repealed by the new government,

Trust your gut. Over the last few decades, there has been a global push to put far more weight on our feelings and to act on our gut, our intuition. It has even been positioned that our intuition knows

You can't save your way to wealth. There are many reasons for this and I think it is pretty obvious to most readers why this is the case, so we needn't delve into it now. Instead, I will mention a conversation

In some areas of Finland, a full 25% of primary school boys are on ADHD medication, despite the estimate being 5-8% of children globally might have ADHD. That is a pretty massive difference of up to 500%,

While Smallsteps was eating her night snack, she asked me what I found interesting, with the ulterior motive of asking a question she has been pondering, which is how people have evolved from being primitive