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I spend my working hours in IT, investigating systems problems and recommending solutions. Not the kind of systems you may first think of, but cultural systems, systems of interfacing processes and dynamics. System dynamics. How we all work with our processes and flows to accomplish something useful or beautiful.
Today at work, I was introduced to [...]

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The Value of a Personal Trainer

A little over a year ago I decided to hire a personal trainer to help me achieve some fitness goals. Don’t misunderstand me, please — I am in my mid-fifties, work in a sedentary IT job, and basically hate to get all sweaty. But age is catching up with me, and my weight is a [...]

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Displacement Activities

I have a list of things to do that is as long as my arm.
Some must be done soon (I’ve promised someone, or we leave on holiday, or I’m paid to do it).
Some don’t really need to be done at all. I bought a tallboy chest of drawers from a man moving out of the [...]

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