Life

Left London and spent the rest of the week at my parents place which was nice and relaxing! Caught up with a couple of friends but mostly getting time in the gym, reading books, and working. Nice to be out of the hecticness of London – it’s a chance to focus and get stuff done. Then set of for North America, will be in Toronto, then Phoenix (for GHC) then Kitchener-Waterloo.

Work

Writing iOS code this week, mostly. Including tests after getting a bit confused with a testing framework I switched back to OC Mock and everything is working great. Watching teen girl movies (DVD) in the background. Love.

Media

Nostalgia, watched What a Girl Wants, 13 Going on 30, The Prince and Me. At Season 2 of How I Met Your Mother.

Read Hegarty on Creativity (good, short!), finished Going Home, and then read Glamour in Glass, Happily Ever After, A Hopeless Romantic, and after reading about women reading Georgette Heyer started on the Heyer myself with April Lady and now Arabella.

Product links Amazon.

Published

• Talk Prep: Grids and Concertinas
• Male Allies and GHC
• #iOSDevUK: Marcus Zarra – Not Invented Here

On The Internet

• .@yuelinX wrote up our experiences at the @odchallenges weekend last week – http://buff.ly/1rtyEQa 
• This is great @dontgetcaught! Note: women better prepared – How @TEDMED achieved 51 percent women speakers in 2014 http://buff.ly/1mDQt02 
• The HR process is not there to protect you, here’s someone experiences of it who thinks it caused them to let her go: http://buff.ly/1pBpXzg 
• This is good – Is My Startup Burn Rate Normal? http://buff.ly/1vtOVGE  /by @DanielleMorrill
• Turns out pigeon carrier not very effective, thanks @charwarz I will let them know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers …
• Such an adorable hedgehog – https://twitter.com/hedgehogdays/status/517152026325549056 …
• I’m v into image manipulation lately, so love this – http://buff.ly/YSYinh 
• Women & VC – “this dynamic threatens to slow innovation on products that are used mostly by women” – http://buff.ly/1rLKaYW  /via @yuelinX
• I love how horrible Britsh people are – 37 Things You’ll Only Find Funny If You’re British – http://buff.ly/1nQSXcb  @Torface5585
• For this alone “the number of fucks I’ll be giving will fail to register on even the most sensitive measuring device” http://buff.ly/YVFcwY 
• Post irked me in the same way – “Some may be sick of talking about it, but you know what I’m sick of? Living it.” http://buff.ly/1vDBnrZ 
• “How to start a startup is just a subset of a bigger problem you’re trying to solve: how to have a good life.” http://buff.ly/1mZ3mln 
• Oh tiny bunnies so cute – http://buff.ly/1rQuIdH  /via @aryareaisparsi
• Needed this today – “Justine Musk on ending the quest for perfect” http://buff.ly/1vFBbbT 
• I’ve started writing each morning, but not on paper! Should I try this? http://buff.ly/1vAHcpg 
• Awwh sleepy – des hommes et des chatons – http://buff.ly/1vAHht9 
• “5 Steps to take to make time for everything” – on giving things up to focus on what you value – http://buff.ly/YXXoG6