Books for book lovers. Booker Prize short list 📚
Books for book lovers. Booker Prize short list 📚
Community Question :
Small or big smartphone ? 🧐 Curious, nothing more.
**Community Question : ** small or big iPhone Android Phone ? Curious 🧐, nothing more.
What is the best job interview advice you would give to a candidate or recruiter ?
Mine, be yourself and have a conversation.
This is so true 
The IKEA effect is apparently something we all desire. Ermmm 😉 curio.io
Interesting accessibility feature 
It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Take the opportunity to reflect on your logins and the app storing your passwords. More Info #thesecureone
Once the cricket World Cup is over. I think I will be cancelling my Tav sports subscription. I watch cricket and the F1. I love F1, but the way things have been handled in the last 12 months means the sport is a laughing stock. 🏏🥅🏎️
iOS 16 : Is it just me or is it harder to review notifications when you swipe down ?
Your boss’s boss has a boss, that has an ask !
Interesting conversations from the past in my consultancy days, summarised and adapted for context. It is a call we all have in our working lives.
Senior Director, I was very impressed how you presented all the information yesterday. I know you were standing in for your boss, and well done.
By the way, I need you to pick this ask up and understand that this is an important request. I know you are standing in for your boss. If you could do this for me, it would really help, and we require XYZ, so we can present it to your boss’s, boss, who has a bossy boss blah blah.
Me, Yes, I have picked this up. I am also dealing with your bosses request which is urgent for today. I am prioritising the asks, how about you lead on this, whilst I do your bosses request, and we can catch up afterwards.
Senior Director response, Oh, my boss has come out to you. Well, oh, well, yes, I would rather not stretch you. Ermmm….this is still significant, though.
Summary: People will constantly try to lean on others to do their work. In some cases, they will use authority and rank. In the end, we can only do so much firefighting.
The courage to be disliked 📚 
Tot has released a few updates and an Apple Watch app. Nominal extra price for the Apple Watch app, if that’s how you roll
Apple and Amazon events have taken place and the announcement of new products have come and gone. For the first time, I am more interested in the Amazon Scribble than any Apple device. Even though, I have an iPad with a pencil. 🤔
I have not been using Matter for long. I do love the email, noticing I am not responding or actioning their recommendations in their app. So they are going to reduce their communications with me. Some may say it’s spying on me. 
Oh, my. I think I need to slow down. Went for a walk and when I came back into the house, I left h the house keys in the lock of the outside door.
I have watched F1 for many years. This is the first time, I have to say it’s a waist of time and seems fixed. 🏎️
Write about your most embarrassing moment
Interesting question from the Day One App.
Mine was, skipping an economics lesson at the age of 16/17. As I walked past the building, I was distracted by a fellow student in that class, shouting from the window. I walked into a lamppost.
Currently reading: The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith 📚
What a few days. I have missed you all. Been busy and stressed with work 😏
I decided to go off for a browse around the shops yesterday and as it’s less than an hour away from me, I drove to Bicester to see what the expensive shops had on sale. Long story short. Not a lot, everything seems inflated for tourists, who were piling their suitcase. Oh, the other problem I had, I went shopping without my wallet. 45 min drive to the shops, 1hr 12min around the shops and 45min drive back.
Purchased via contactless:
• 4 x Laduree Macarons for the wife as a treat £10
• Apple fizz drink for myself £2.50
On the way to Bicester, I noticed a car parked up in the side of a quiet roundabout . I rolled down my window to ask if it could help in any way and to my shock, a man was holding a physical AA map. Yes, a map and no smartphone in sight. I respect the driver’s determination, but his driving and parking skills were awful, lol.
I know there are many academics on Micro.blog. I am curious what your thoughts are on this? Facebook Groups Rate And Review School Books They seem to be dictating school literature.
Electric went off late last night and I am still tired from trying to fix it 😞😏
Anyone who followed the Serial podcasts might be intrigued in the latest story regards season one. Adman Syed Released. This was the first podcast back in 2014/15 that got me into crime podcasts and then the world exploded with them everywhere. 🎧
A very somber day in the UK today. Impressed with all the people who have travelled to see the Queen 👏🏽🙏🏽