Leigh's Blog.

I write things about leadership, information security, family, music, technology, and life.

My previous blog is here

Because I'm an idiot and keep changing my blogging tools/platforms all the time, I quite often orphan links that people make to my posts. Soz.

I have a Substack too, but I don't do anything with that yet.

Leigh

Mastodon - Life After Twitter

I have spent a lot of time on Twitter, but it's fair to say I never really liked it. In fact, over the years I developed a love/hate relationship with it where I was either over-using it or deleting everything I'd ever done on there.

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Creatively Stuck

I started a project last year. It's a creative project in my own time that requires writing, music, and artwork. It's a big ask of myself and whilst it was going well to start with, I've seemingly gotten myself stuck and can't find a way…

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"My job is context switching"

Context switching - jumping between multiple tasks - is one of the things that I seek to protect my teams from. It is pretty commonly derided as a "productivity killer" and having been in various jobs that have demanded it I can attest to the…

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Flexible Working is Quite Hard

I love working from home. My commute is lovely. The coffee is consistently excellent and works out at about 17p per cup. My monitor is huge. The guy making my lunch is quite lazy which often results in my eating crisp butties, but I think…

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