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One Day You'll Wake Up and You Won't
A collection of thoughts, a poem if you like, capturing some thoughts on what it is to live. Deep stuff eh?
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4 days ago2 min read


Just the Other Side of the Lens
A poem relating to happy memories captured in photographs and stored away, like treasure, to be re-found one day
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6 days ago1 min read


The Parable of a Bridge Too Near
An allegory for putting just a bit more effort in to get a massive increase in usefulness
daveatkinnerton
Mar 7, 20252 min read


Learn before you Earn
I know it is rubbish English, but in another way its not, You can't 'Learn' someone . It's something they have to do themselves. During...
daveatkinnerton
Jan 11, 20252 min read


Failing to Plan and Planning to Fail
I have written the following 'hearing' (something I hear someone else say, or heard myself think) in my little book. Something I heard...
daveatkinnerton
Dec 8, 20242 min read


Better and betterer
I was never a fan of incentivised pay schemes. You meet such-and-such a target and therefore get such-and-such a bonus. Being now...
daveatkinnerton
Sep 15, 20242 min read


Manage your Inspectations
Another 'hearing' from that same job (where I drove to the moon and back over 6 years (not literally)) came from a training course on...
daveatkinnerton
Jan 25, 20241 min read


Phrases that light a candle
I have a little book that I have been writing things in. 'Hearings' I call them. Things I've heard others say, read or even on occasions...
daveatkinnerton
Jan 21, 20242 min read


Incompetent with a capital 'A'
I find I am a fan of words. Not really single words (although there are some doozy single words out there) but collections of words that, if they are good words and in the right order, stand out. I like writing and miss it now I have stopped formal work. It was geeky stuff, but still. When you feel you have something to say, looking for the right words in order to engage becomes a mindfulness exercise. Teasing out picture-full words and arranging them in a tuneful pattern unt
daveatkinnerton
Dec 25, 20237 min read
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