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 the first English edition, written by Michael Glenny, gives just the right...
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 definitely need the next two weeks off work, living life in the slow lane in order...
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 has dissipated, ready to return next year. As we approached the end of the week,...
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 neat, interlocking parts in a logical whole. Rather, I saw and experienced many...
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 Internet that otherwise may not be surfaced through the big search engines or AI...
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 to go home, but it never felt quite bad enough. That night and the next day were...
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 I’ve been feeling that the year has caught up with me. I’m ready for a rest. This...
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 teams are working around each other and are on a deadline to get everything up...
Added an ‘/ai’ page to my site to disclose my use of generative AI, inspired by Damola Morenikeji’s /ai ‘manifesto’.
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