{"id":3175,"date":"2025-04-30T21:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:02:32","slug":"sunday-scraps-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/sunday-scraps-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZoOBgyTVyY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in Greece for a solo holiday and heading to Hydra for the third time so watched this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marianne_%26_Leonard:_Words_of_Love\">excellent doco<\/a> about Leonard Cohen&#8217;s time there with Marianne Ihlen \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/aug\/16\/four-thousand-weeks-time-and-how-to-use-it-by-oliver-burkeman-review\">Four Thousand Weeks<\/a> was a good pr\u00e9cis of a lot of other books i&#8217;ve read but the chapter about patience is really special \/\u00a0 a excellent and multi-disciplinary lecture on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hnOO4F1ycDE\">masculinity<\/a> that led me to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallup.com\/cliftonstrengths\/en\/250931\/strengths-based-leadership-building-compassion-followers.aspx\">Gallop research<\/a> on the role of compassion in business success \/ my friend Joe has a <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/netil-radio\/joe-pipal-24th-march-2025\">jazz\/funk\/blues show<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netilradio.com\/\">Netil Radio<\/a> once a month on a Monday and you should dial in \/ I&#8217;m seriously considering taking up the piano again after a 30 year break and side eyeing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianodreamers.com\/roland-fp30x-review\/\">Roland FP30X<\/a> \/ I&#8217;m getting grumpy about naming environmental work as &#8216;more than human&#8217; seeing as I literally have <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demodex_folliculorum\">mites<\/a> on my face causing rosacea. We&#8217;re just fleabags baby \/ a lovely <a href=\"https:\/\/vaginamuseumshop.co.uk\/products\/lip-service-issue-1-menopause?_pos=1&amp;_sid=2cbe903ac&amp;_ss=r\">zine<\/a> about the menopause \/ the civil service&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/gcs.civilservice.gov.uk\/career\/recruitment-guidance\/standardised-job-descriptions\/\">standardised job descriptions<\/a> are a good idea, i&#8217;m just not sure about the execution \/ the textile work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilahicks.com\/\">Shiela Hicks<\/a> is amazing \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birka_grave_Bj_581\">viking warriors<\/a> were also women \/ an upcoming event in Venice about <a href=\"https:\/\/berggruen.org\/news\/the-next-earth-computation-crisis-cosmology\">climate, computation and cosmology<\/a> \/ an ALCS (i&#8217;m a member) <a href=\"https:\/\/chng.it\/DdbzyDz2WR\">campaign<\/a> against the use of pirated material to train <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library_Genesis\">LibGen<\/a> \/ on the perfect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monkhouseandcompany.com\/resources\/blog\/executive-team-size-matters\/\">size<\/a> for an executive team.<\/p>\n<p>In job seeking news, I have a second interview somewhere which is exciting. I&#8217;m also looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/apply.workable.com\/digital-catapult\/j\/80D29A3677\/\">Head of Innovation<\/a> role at the Digital Catapult but am disappointed there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/showthesalary.wordpress.com\/\">no salary advertised<\/a>. I need to start to freelance so going to fluff up my website to give people examples of the kinds of things I&#8217;ve done. After almost 20 years, my long list is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/work\/\">just too long<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also started doing obtuse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/designswarm\/\">weeknotes<\/a> on Instagram if that&#8217;s your cup of tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Greece for a solo holiday and heading to Hydra for the third time so watched this excellent doco about Leonard Cohen&#8217;s time there with Marianne Ihlen \/ Four Thousand Weeks was a good pr\u00e9cis of a lot of other books i&#8217;ve read but the chapter about patience is really special \/\u00a0 a excellent&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/sunday-scraps-82\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #82<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-of-things","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-Pd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}