Andrew Doran
Andrew Doran
Andrew Doran
I write here in order to work things out and understand myself better. I write here in order to put things down that I have been carrying around in my head, so I don’t need to carry them around anymore. I write here in order to capture a moment and have something that I can look back on, remembering what I thought and felt at the time.
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After listening again to Rufus Wainwright’s cover of the whole album at the weekend, this week, as I left the office, I put on Judy Garland’s concert at Carnegie Hall. By the...
All of these people saying that Formula 1 is now like Mario Kart. I don’t think they played the original on the SNES; that was proper racing. There was none of this ‘blue shell’...
A good, solid week at work. It felt like I got lots done. I had a very busy end to the week, including a lot of socialising and an excellent long bike ride in the spring...
Weeknotes #372 — Born in the financial crisis
Waiting for a train at Chesham tube station. It’s always a bit surreal to jump onto a Metropolitan Line train so far out of the capital. Despite last week being filled with...
Thanks for the tip. A week off work, dominated by having a streaming cold for a few days and a catastrophic failure of my home network drive, resulting in multiple days of...
Came across this wonderful video from 1969 with Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross. The performances of the songs are superb, and there is such a lovely warmth between the two of them.
Weeknotes #370 — I Don’t Know Why
Slide from Hannah Fry’s presentation at the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum A really tough week, mentally and physically. I spent the first two days at the Gartner CIO Leadership...
Weeknotes #369 — The Clapping Song
My first five-day work week for a while, and it was a tough one. Despite twenty years of following GTD and working on simplifying my workflow, in busy periods I end up falling...
Weeknotes #368 — What we all want
Flying into Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The start of the week was spent travelling back from Kingsville, Texas. Saying that it is 5,000 miles away from Berkhamsted isn’t doing...
🏎️ On the new Formula 1 regulations
Having watched this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix, I have to say that I am loving this version of Formula 1. There is a narrative that the racing is ‘fake’ due to the 50/50...
Weeknotes #367 — Kingsville, Texas
Kleberg Avenue, Kingsville, Texas A hectic week of travel. On Monday I came back from Austria where I’d spent a long weekend in the skiing town of Kitzbühel with colleagues. On...
Finished reading Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. A good collection of positive reflections on human nature, debunking many negative apocryphal stories about how...
The town of Kitzbühel, Austria, from high up in the mountains. A four-day working week with a long weekend away at the end. I needed it. At the start of the week I noted that I...
Weeknotes #365 — The Prophet’s Song
Stopped to photograph this phone box on my walk to work, as the construction work means that you can’t open the door. Then I noticed that it’s due to be removed. Last week was...
Bringing a 27-year-old programming project back to life with Claude Code
A big chunk of my final year at university, studying for my Computer Science degree, was spent working on a project. That last year counted for 60% of my overall grade, and the...