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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Interesting to see this in the notes for the FT’s News Briefing podcast. Is 2026 the year where we start to see messages like this everywhere?
Finished reading Faithful Ruslan by Georgi Vladimov. Published in 1975 in West Germany, it is the story of the closure of a Soviet prison camp in the late 1950s, told from the perspective of one of the camp’s guard dogs. The foreword to...
As it always does, Christmas week came and went so quickly. We started it with everyone in the house under the weather in one form or another, recovering from either illness or injury. I was feeling a profound tiredness in my bones. I...
My last working week of the year. This period always has a strange feeling about it. The trains are slightly emptier, and the office is quiet. The cogs of the office are turning and everything is going through the motions, but the soul...
Finished reading How to Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. Early in the book the author herself says that: …you’ll find that this book is a bit oddly shaped. The arguments and observations I’ll make here are not...
Over the past few years, I’ve seen some wonderful tools sprout up that encourage and facilitate the exploration of independent websites and blogs. These are fun and useful places to explore, helping you to dig around corners of the...
Christmas tree near Chancery Lane station, London. Last weekend’s start of a cold turned into a full-blown one on Monday. I went into the office as usual but felt as though I was wandering around with a hangover. Everyone was telling me...
Niche. Spotted on my walk to the office this morning.
Christmas bells outside the Holy Sepulchre Church in the City of London. The past couple of weeks have given us properly grotty weather. Wind and rain with a few days of freezing temperatures thrown in. This was another busy week where...
Just booked our slot for the annual Scouts Christmas tree recycling collection. Feels weird as we don’t even have a tree yet.
Another packed week, brimming with meetings. This was a week in which I: Joined various meetings about our sister company’s office refurbishment project, ahead of the start of the audio-visual installation work in our shared spaces. The...
Added an ‘/ai’ page to my site to disclose my use of generative AI, inspired by Damola Morenikeji’s /ai ‘manifesto’.
Gave my About page a long-overdue update. I’ve also added a /now page to the site too.
A regular week, back in the office after last week’s trip to Barcelona. Things have suddenly turned very cold here in the UK. It’s feeling dark and wintry. This was a week in which I: Had the weekly call with our audio-visual design...
I’m a big believer in the philosophy of ‘Post (on) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere’, or POSSE, as it has come to be known. My website is the canonical place where I post anything I want to get out into the world. The syndication takes...