I don’t know exactly when I learned to use WordPress as a publishing/blogging platform, but it has turned out to be one of the best decisions I have ever made. Firstly, it has allowed me to publish my own content on my own websites which I control entirely. The freedom, and control, that this has… Continue reading Learning WordPress-One of the best decisions I’ve made
The same mistake over and over
No matter how many times I try to explain, no matter how many blog posts I write, no matter how many videos I make, people make the same mistake over and over: thinking that, somehow, life is supposed to be fair and unfairness in the workplace gives rise to a legal claim or cause of… Continue reading The same mistake over and over
Marketing your small business-the benefit of being interesting
I have studied the art and science of copywriting over the last five years, or thereabouts. Copywriting, to define it simply, is the skill of writing words that persuade the reader to do something; it could be to change their mind, take a certain action, buy something. I have read books by the greats of… Continue reading Marketing your small business-the benefit of being interesting
The Evolution of Hip Hop
I’m watching a documentary series on Netflix at the moment called ‘Hip-Hop Evolution’. It is a look at the role of hip hop and rap music in society, how it started and evolved. I have an interest in hip hop and rap music, primarily because of the importance of words in rap and hip-hop music.… Continue reading The Evolution of Hip Hop
Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #5
You probably come from the West or Europe and if that’s the case you have a particular view of the world, a view that you were taught from an early age in school. This world view would have been reinforced as the truth and the objective narrative of the world and its history. But there… Continue reading Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #5
Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #4
There is a description of working down the coal mines in 19th century northern France in “Germinal” by Emile Zola that painted a claustrophobic, vivid picture in my mind as I read this book. “Germinal” is set in the late 1800s in Northern France and describes the appalling conditions that the working class found itself… Continue reading Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #4
Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #3
I have read “Catcher in the Rye” by JD Salinger twice. The first time I had wondered what all the fuss had been about; the second time, I knew. This is a book which I would describe as achingly beautiful because of the voice of the narrator, Holden Caulfied. I would also say it is… Continue reading Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #3
Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #2
A book that would definitely be on my top 5 list is “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. Frankl was an Austrian Jew, a psychiatrist, who was sent to the concentration camps with his family during the second world war. Frankl saw his wife and children, including his unborn child, go to the gas… Continue reading Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #2
Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #1
The first book I would have on my list of recommended books for my children to read is “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens. This book is essentially about the legal system in England in the 19th century and Dickens likens the legal system, of which he had practical experience and a dim view, to fog.… Continue reading Books I Would Recommend to My Children: #1
Books I Would Recommend to My Children
Scanning through my Kindle to remind myself of the large number of books I have read over the last two years or thereabouts two things struck me: The subject matter of these books ranges extensively, from marketing to business to Jane Austen to Charles Dickens to Gogol to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy to Raymond Chandler and… Continue reading Books I Would Recommend to My Children