So, this blog has been going (on and off) for ten whole years.

A decade! Blimey, I never expected that.

• It started off in a very amateur fashion¹, with me mainly ‘moaning about the world’.
• It matured into longer, better referenced, (intended to be) educational pieces.
• …and nowadays it’s a bit of an ad hoc hobby.

My early posts used to ‘fly off the page’. My later ones were (and are) often agony to write…. hence why they are few and far between.

I’m forever referencing dozens of half-written posts in conversations (as in “I’ve started to write about that…”) …which sometimes causes me to finish another one.

As a bit of a ‘trip down (my) memory lane’ I trawled through the list of nearly 200 ‘brain farts’ written so far…and I looked for those that, for some reason, stood out to me².

I curated these into a list of ten³. You might like to pick a few to read (or re-read if you’ve been coming here for a while) …

A bit of fun:

1. What have the Romans ever done for us!! [Oct. 2015]
2. “My Lord, I bring news!” [Feb. 2016]
3. “Dad…what do you do at work?” [May 2016]⁴
4. Dilbert says…let’s automate everything! [Aug 2016]

Profound (at least as I see it):

5. Depths of Transformation [Sept. 2016]
6. ‘Chain’ beats ‘Triangle’ [Feb. 2017]
7. Smoke and mirrors [June 2019]
8. On Resilience [May 2020]
9. The Righting Reflex [Jan 2022]
10. On Vector Measurement: the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of [July 2022]

…and I should note the one (and only) time that I did a serialised post over a week about big corporates:

“Your Money or your Life!” [Oct 2016]

Right, that’s it for my trip down memory lane. I’ll see what the future brings…

Footnotes

1. I sometimes read old posts and cringe at how it is written/ laid out etc…and I fight the urge to do some ‘renovations’ (i.e. make it look better than it actually was!).

2. Every post was written for a specific reason (either something had just happened around me, or someone had explicitly asked for help, or I’d had a Eureka moment or…) so, on reviewing them as a list, lots of them caused (shall we say) flashbacks.

3. I think that there may be a handful of people that have read a fair few of my posts. If this is you, then I’d be really interested in knowing if there is a post that ‘stood out to you’ (i.e. one that’s not in my list of ten). It’ll either make me smile/laugh or perhaps groan.

4. This post refers to a previous job that I held…although it’s still close to the truth.

5. Post Image: In the spirit of ’10 years is a long time’ (i.e. change), this post is the first time that I’ve used an AI ‘Text to Image’ creator (Adobe Firefly) for my little corner thumbnail post picture. An interesting area to explore.