This week I have learned:
- how fusing metaphors can lead to fascinating outcomes (blog on this here).
- how being away from work for a while can give the brain space to make those sorts of connections.
- how nice our newly-refurbished offices in Farringdon are.
- how the end of the first full week back is the cut off point for being able to say “Happy New Year”. Happy New Year!
- what a sense of achievement it is to have had the book sent off to the printers.
- that reframing things is often very important, but it can sometimes take a while to get there.
- that we still have Christmas Cheese left in the fridge.
The week in media:
Read:
Range by David Epstein about the power of generalism. Also started Goldfarb and Kirsch’s Bubbles and Crashes but it’s pretty dry.
Listened:
The audiobook of Somebody told me by Danny Wallace.
Watched:
The Beast in Me on Netflix
The first series of The Night Manager (exceptional) in preparation for the second series (which is desparately missing Hugh Laurie).
The final parts of Stranger Things.
Saw:
The latest exhibition, of artisinal pottery and woodwork, and London’s Japan House.
Next week:
Continuing experiments in shrubbery.
The week in photos:
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