Words about Words - January 2021
Hello all,
Welcome to January’s edition of ‘Words about Words’ - where I share some of the things I’ve found interesting, entertaining or useful over the past month. Read on…
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Interesting, entertaining or useful
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Make time to do your best work
I’m a fan of the Do Lectures’ stuff, and have found a lot of their advice useful over the past almost-year of full-time freelancing. In this article, they share advice on how to work better rather than work more. LINK
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How to create and achieve ‘process goals’
This article by Britain’s second-fastest female marathoner, Mara Yamauchi, has an athletics focus, but the advice could easily be applied to any area of life, leisure and work. LINK
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How we made ‘Run Lola Run’
My favourite film of all time is ‘Run Lola Run’, or ‘Lola Rennt’ in German. If you’ve not watched it, then this article may, admittedly, be of limited interest to you. LINK
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For those I love - I have a love
Here’s a music recommendation. Words and dance music? Yep, that’ll do for me. LINK
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Many (many!) charities are too small to measure their own impact
There are a few things within the charity world that are accepted as being ‘good to do’ or ‘good to have’, but can actually be detrimental. Caroline Fiennes at Giving Evidence is an expert at cutting through the preconceptions and measuring the true value of an activity. In this article, she demonstrates how funders’ requests for impact measurement can negatively affect the effectiveness of the charities’ work (and the value for money of their own donation). LINK
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My work
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I’ve been a bit of a rubbish blogger this year, with no new content on my website, but that is (fortunately) as I’ve been working on a few other things that have taken up my time. I’ve got plenty of ideas for blogs - I’ve just not written them yet.
There’s been a chunk of new content and behind-the-scenes stuff at Lonely Goat, which you can read:
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That’s it for January’s edition of ‘Words about Words’. Keep an eye out for February’s edition, arriving in subscribers’ email inboxes on the last Thursday of the month (use the box below to subscribe), and appearing on this website on the following day.
Thanks for reading,
Jonathan x