Category: Life
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Why It’s Time to End ‘Retirement’ as We Know It
The traditional concept of retirement and working age is facing a significant shift. As people live longer and pension ages rise, the idea of a fixed working age bracket is becoming increasingly irrelevant. In OECD countries, an average of 23%…
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Creating a Unified Voice
When I started this blog in 2020, I intended it as a companion site to my main blog, a sandbox to write about wider-ranging topics and my experiments with WordPress themes not quite fit for the main stage. This site…
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To Spring Forward or Not, That Is the Question
In the small hours of this Sunday, 31 March, across the United Kingdom and the European mainland, an age-old ritual unfolded almost magically. In unison at 1 a.m. GMT/UTC, as if by the command of Chronos himself, we have “sprung…
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We’ve got things a bit backwards
Yesterday I shared a post on one of my Twitter accounts linking to an Amberfi blog post that included the image you see here, Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.…
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Temperature alignments
As we start another heat wave here in the UK, the talk about temperatures increases. One topic I find constant, especially in conversation with American friends, is understanding what various temperature measurements mean. For example, what’s 30 degrees Celsius in…