https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2023/10/02/weeknotes-240-pj-phillips/
My life is filled with so much music at the moment. In some ways it’s like being a teenager again. I seem to spend most of my spare cash on vinyl, CDs,...
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https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2024/02/04/weeknotes-258-goodbyes/
On Friday we headed town to Bournemouth to say goodbye to my nan. It was a beautiful and moving service, reminding us of what a lovely woman she was. My uncle...
andrew dorangoodbyes
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2021/03/29/weeknotes-109-foam-party/
A week of two halves, or more accurately one fifth and four-fifths. Monday was Human Rights Day in South Africa (reflecting the date of the Sharpeville...
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https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2023/06/02/trying-to-understand-how-chatgpt-works/
I finally got around to reading the Stephen Wolfram essay on What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? Despite being written in relatively simple terms,...
trying toandrew doranunderstandchatgptworks
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2024/12/10/weeknotes-302-tuxedo-junction/
On Tuesday my company had a party to celebrate both our 10th anniversary and the upcoming retirement of our CEO. Drinks and canapés were followed by a formal...
tuxedo junctionandrew doran
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/03/17/weeknotes-316-everything-is-listening/
A view of Canary Wharf, over the river from Greenwich, on a cold Tuesday morning in March Four days in London followed by Friday at home. The main event of the...
everything isandrew doranlistening
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/11/02/12662/
📚 Finished reading The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979). An epic book in five parts, covering the mid-1950s, the...
andrew doran
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/05/10/london-wales-london-2025/
Ever since I bought a bike back in 2013, I’ve been fascinated by long rides. It didn’t take long before I was venturing further than I could cope with. I...
andrew doranlondonwales
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/11/26/weeknotes-352-doing-thought-work/
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....
andrew doranthoughtwork
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2024/10/07/weeknotes-292293-open-office/
Imagine opening a new office in New York City A double-helping of weeknotes. I spent the last two weeks in New York City, working with our team to open our new...
open officeandrew doran
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2023/05/30/my-friction-filled-information-workflow/
Every 18 months or so I find myself feeling that my personal information workflow is working against me. Sometimes I end up diving into an inevitably fruitless...
andrew doranfrictionfilledinformationworkflow
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2024/09/09/weeknotes-289-three-strikes/
Early on Sunday morning we had an incredible thunderstorm, with a lightning strike that fried the routers for a swathe of people in our street. It also killed...
three strikesandrew doran
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2022/05/19/hitman/
To me there is something beautiful about a brotherhood of big, tough men who only pretend to hurt one another for a living instead of actually doing it. I came...
andrew doranhitman
https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/10/16/12600/
🎶 It’s Album Club #176.
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https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2022/03/18/violent-borders/
I love it when a book makes me think about something in a new way. I love it even more when it challenges something so fundamental that I didn’t realise...
andrew doranviolentborders