Ok if you're still here let's sum up the Working From Home and Teleconferencing Rules™ 1. Make sure your partner knows your schedule + wears pants 2. Lock the door so your kids don't barge in 3. Do NOT take your laptop/phone w/ you to the bathroom 👇🤢 x.com/jdahall/status…

Timely 👏

"Thanks for drafting that funding proposal for us. We've now sent it round to lots of staff who have no experience of fundraising who have all had a go at tweaking and adding bits. What do you think of the attached?"

So I’m not getting a vaccine next week - was feeling weird about why I’d been selected ahead of others so rang GP to check. Turns out they had my height as 6.2cm rather than 6 ft 2, giving me a BMI of 28,000 😂

Proposal to add modifier sequence to pizza emoji

I went to a conference where there was a little goodie bag for each delegate. Inside the bag, amongst other things, was a fizzy sherbert type sweet, which I duly attempted to eat. It was a bath bomb.

New client, and had to have a handover with outgoing consultant. “So, do you think you can STEP UP, and not make a mess of what I’ve done?” I’m actually there to unpick all the bollocks he’s done in the last year. Just nodded and smiled.

Alright, that's the 🍍 thing sorted... Onto the fails.

This is 🎯. It’s still a constant battle for me to drop inhibitions and just ship it. But I remind myself of this quote- “If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great is ever going to happen to you.” …And being in a culture surrounded by badass shippers helps too 🙌

Well, the new Leith Walk bike lane is an accident waiting to happen.

We can learn much more from failed projects than successful projects. However, for this to happen, we have to build in (& value) the time for reflection, looking at the data & learning. If we don't do this, we keep failing for the same reasons, time after time. Art: Moina Abdul | Visual Ideas

What does 'failure' mean to you?

Pizza For Losers @NikkiLeah_ Failure is the master of success.

What clowns can teach us about failure Both Gareth's thread and Dara's article are well worth a read.

We clearly made a mistake, @BanklessHQ. 🫢 Glad our teams were able to fix things quickly. Can you DM me your contact info and we can talk offline? Love the level of conversation happening around crypto on YouTube - very interested in web3 and the role we can play in the topic!

Something about this seems amiss.....🤔 Can't quite put my finger on what's missing.....🤨

Last year I ordered a thousand branded phone chargers for work. When they arrived I saw that I'd misspelt the web address. I bought some paint remover to take off the branding and have been selling them on e-bay since. My MD doesn't know that I never gave them out to customers

3 things to remember when you’re feeling anxious: 💭 thoughts are just thoughts 🧠 my feelings are valid 🌀 I have handled hard things before, I can handle them now