Crisil put away the treasure map, brushed away the dust on the stone plaque and read the carving carefully ( Read more... )

Sehor tapped his snout impatiently on the floor. "No. No. No. This just won't do... the purple is too depressing ( Read more... )

Mother and daughter glared at each other venomously ( Read more... )

The messenger's voice quivered as he delivered the news to Zog. The stars of the obsidian night sky peeped nervously through the glass domed roof at the scene playing out below - the silence so deathly that even the court jesters looked serious ( Read more... )

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She's bluer than a grey day in London ( Read more... )

2011 is over. It's been the most eventful year of my life ( Read more... )

I just read an old post - 'The game of life', one I wrote nine years ago at the age of 25. The strange thing is all the things that I thought I had learned recently had already been explicitly covered in that seminal documentation of my worldview at the time. The thought struck me - perhaps I haven't grown at all - maybe I've just been going ( Read more... )

A few months ago I noticed that I was reacting over-sensitively to feedback and so I constructed a set of heuristics for myself to guide how I should respond in those situations. I think the clarity those rules provided me worked really well. Now when I get feedback I'm really good at listening to it without feeling criticized. In fact I think I've ( Read more... )

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