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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Looks like we picked the wrong week to fly to a popper-fuelled party at Everest Base Camp. Two and a half years after it happened the first time, my wife developed another detached retina, this time in the other eye. Late on Friday afternoon, my wife texted me to say that she felt as though it was happening again....
Last night, thanks to a friend pointing out that there were three members of Britpop-era band Dodgy, the penny dropped and I finally got the triple meaning pun of Dodgy’s 1996 album title Free Peace Sweet. Superb work, guys from Dodgy. Is 29 years to get the joke some kind of record (pun not intended)?
My diary was back-to-back this week, with very little discretionary time to get anything done. I’m going to have to do something about it to stop it from becoming the norm. Over the past few weeks I’ve been finding it increasingly difficult to get these weeknotes written. I still find the practice very useful, both...
A productive, balanced and enjoyable week. This was a week in which I: Spent time reading through our business strategy documentation and trying to learn about global capital flows. I’ve been asked to pick up some additional projects that sit outside Technology. Despite 26 years of working in investment banks, there...
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