by Jamie Miles | Oct 18, 2020 | True Stories & Reflections
My colleagues walked in with their coffees, and I had my bag of frozen peas. It was an autumn day, so the peas were still nice and cold when I popped them on my desk. Yesterday I had thought it just a bruise, but I was wrong. The bone had cracked. My suspicions were...
by Jamie Miles | Oct 11, 2020 | True Stories & Reflections
I went to a performing arts school, which meant everyone had to take at least one performing arts class. Think Drama, Music, Dance, Expressive Arts, and the like. Most people hated this. I was most people. The performing arts wasn’t what I disliked, but standing...
by Jamie Miles | Oct 4, 2020 | True Stories & Reflections
Setup the tools in your life to enrich, not subtract. Most tools will stay in their drawer, but modern tools are needier. Especially our phones. By default, they don’t want to live peacefully in our pockets. They want to be picked up, played with, and will whine with...
by Jamie Miles | Sep 27, 2020 | True Stories & Reflections
You’ve found my journal, and decide to flick through it. May 2016 stands out. It’s longer than the other entries, and there’s a quotation written in large letters with three underlines. You realise that the quotation was from a lady that I had met that month....
by Jamie Miles | Sep 20, 2020 | True Stories & Reflections
Reject competition. Embrace collaboration. There’s a joke at Oxford University that ‘Imposter Syndrome’ started here. It’s easy to believe. This syndrome is the belief that you don’t belong somewhere, despite having all the required skills. You feel like an imposter....
