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2013.02.02 : One Life, Baby
A Not-As-Brief-As-Intended Notice for Marianne Cantwell's Be A Free Range Human

I dug this book and its author's voice. It's a blast to read - witty, funny, and breezy, as well as grabby and well-organised with lots of mini-case studies and tips broken out - and profoundly insightful and most especially inspiring.... (read more)

2012.05.23 : TEDification Wednesday
"Why You Will Fail To Have A Great Career"
Plus: Cartman's B%^&s

Welcome back, after a long hiatus, to TEDification Wednesday. Amongst all the other good reasons to listen to TED presenters is that they don't typically get to be TED presenters by being stupid, uninsightful, or unsuccessful.... (read more)

2010.02.23 : My Walk Home
Or, Prepare to Be Bored Brainless
Or, You'd Have to Be an Idiot to Watch This

"Bliss - a second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom." - David Foster Wallace... (read more)

2007.05.18 : Contemplate Something Else Instead
Excerpts from Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness

My purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilised countries suffer, and which is all the more unbearable because, having no obvious external cause, it appears inescapable.... (read more)

2005.10.28 : A (Birth)Day in the Life (In Pictures)
And Rather Heavily Annotated
With Quite A Lot of Random Observations About London and Life In It

realised in a flash that I could conceivably take the narcissism, self-absorption, and exhibitionism that are so startlingly inherent in vanity web sites in general, and blogs in particular, to great new uncharted depths . . . a brave new nadir of self-promotion and life minutiae documentation. I realised I could photo- (and/or video-)document virtually every moment of an average day of my life.... (read more)

2005.10.26 : You and I Behind the Veil are Past

I saw my first poppy today, while running around the edge of Trafalgar Square. I saw three poppies on my run. The first roasted chestnut vendors are also out, as of last week.... (read more)

2005.08.05 : The Battle Is Joined

"The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity . . . It was the deep knowledge - and pray God we have not lost it - that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest."... (read more)

2005.01.04 : A Melancholy Blue

I left the office shortly after 6pm - an hour after the last civil servant had melted away - and walked the streets of Soho. I headed north then west, bouncing pinball-like through the brilliant rectangle of Soho... (read more)

2003.11.18 : A Pictorial History of - What's, Let's Face It, Is A Somewhat Arbitrary Selection of Moments From - My First Two Months in London
18 September - 18 November

Since I became, on 18 September 2003, a legal resident of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island, London has hardly left me two free minutes to rub together - much less to properly dispatch. ... (read more)

2003.04.07 : WSIDWML?
Excerpts From Po Bronson's What Should I Do With My Life?

How many times do you really face a choice in life? How many times will you get the benefit of arriving at a crossroads, where you don't have to fight the tug of rolling inertia, and your choice isn't going to hurt someone you love?... (read more)

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Fuchs is the author of the novels The Manuscript and Pandora's Sisters, both published worldwide by Macmillan in hardback, paperback and all e-book formats (and in translation); the D-Boys series of high-tech, high-concept, spec-ops military adventure novels – D-Boys, Counter-Assault, and Close Quarters Battle (coming in 2016); and is co-author, with Glynn James, of the bestselling Arisen series of special-operations military ZA novels. The second nicest thing anyone has ever said about his work was: "Fuchs seems to operate on the narrative principle of 'when in doubt put in a firefight'." (Kirkus Reviews, more here.)

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	Dispatches tagged as: work (10) 2013.02.02 : One Life, Baby A Not-As-Brief-As-Intended Notice for Marianne Cantwell's Be A Free Range Human I dug this book and its author's voice. It's a blast to read - witty, funny, and breezy, as well as grabby and well-organised with lots of mini-case studies and tips broken out - and profoundly insightful and most especially inspiring.... (read more) 2012.05.23 : TEDification Wednesday "Why You Will Fail To Have A Great Career" Plus: Cartman's B%^&s Welcome back, after a long hiatus, to TEDification Wednesday. Amongst all the other good reasons to listen to TED presenters is that they don't typically get to be TED presenters by being stupid, uninsightful, or unsuccessful.... (read more) 2010.02.23 : My Walk Home Or, Prepare to Be Bored Brainless Or, You'd Have to Be an Idiot to Watch This "Bliss - a second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom." - David Foster Wallace... (read more) 2007.05.18 : Contemplate Something Else Instead Excerpts from Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness My purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilised countries suffer, and which is all the more unbearable because, having no obvious external cause, it appears inescapable.... (read more) 2005.10.28 : A (Birth)Day in the Life (In Pictures) And Rather Heavily Annotated With Quite A Lot of Random Observations About London and Life In It realised in a flash that I could conceivably take the narcissism, self-absorption, and exhibitionism that are so startlingly inherent in vanity web sites in general, and blogs in particular, to great new uncharted depths . . . a brave new nadir of self-promotion and life minutiae documentation. I realised I could photo- (and/or video-)document virtually every moment of an average day of my life.... (read more) 2005.10.26 : You and I Behind the Veil are Past I saw my first poppy today, while running around the edge of Trafalgar Square. I saw three poppies on my run. The first roasted chestnut vendors are also out, as of last week.... (read more) 2005.08.05 : The Battle Is Joined "The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity . . . It was the deep knowledge - and pray God we have not lost it - that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest."... (read more) 2005.01.04 : A Melancholy Blue I left the office shortly after 6pm - an hour after the last civil servant had melted away - and walked the streets of Soho. I headed north then west, bouncing pinball-like through the brilliant rectangle of Soho... (read more) 2003.11.18 : A Pictorial History of - What's, Let's Face It, Is A Somewhat Arbitrary Selection of Moments From - My First Two Months in London 18 September - 18 November Since I became, on 18 September 2003, a legal resident of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island, London has hardly left me two free minutes to rub together - much less to properly dispatch. ... (read more) 2003.04.07 : WSIDWML? Excerpts From Po Bronson's What Should I Do With My Life? How many times do you really face a choice in life? How many times will you get the benefit of arriving at a crossroads, where you don't have to fight the tug of rolling inertia, and your choice isn't going to hurt someone you love?... (read more)