Sam Clarke

Latest — Mar 6, 2022

Trying to improve how I self-organise

Starting my own personal projects has meant trying to find a different way to manage and prioritise my work, mostly because I’m not constrained in the same way in my own work as I am in my day job. During my day job those constraints tend to be things

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Yearly Goals: 2021 in Review

I’m three years in to my now ritual process of planning for the year ahead by setting myself a series of goals to cover broad areas of my life. This year my goal was themed around commitment and those goals were split in to three main areas. 📚 Commit to

Moving on from Fasthosts

Today is my last day at Fasthosts. I've been there as a Product Manager for their server and cloud products for the last 2 years and while I've had an amazing time and succeeded in all the ways I intended, it's time for me to move on to something new.

My typical day

I've seen a few of these posts doing the rounds recently. It felt like a blog topic from the early days of personal blogging and I couldn't resist. 06:00 - Wake up, lie in bed and catch up on anything I've missed overnight. I've written about it a little

Goals for 2021: Commitment

2020 was a year filled with a lot of great personal victories, I wrote about it in my Year in Review. 2021 is now the second year in a row I've set myself considered, measurable goals for the 12 months ahead and given the success of last year intended on using the same approach.

Simple Sourdough

This is about the most basic sourdough recipe I think you can really get away with. It uses a mix of strong white bread and rye flours, though you can ditch the rye entirely by just replacing it with more white flour, and uses only minimal equipment available in most kitchens.

Yearly Goals: 2020 in Review

All things considered 2020 was a year filled with personal successes. This was the first time I'd really set myself a structured set of goals for the year ahead, where previously I'd always been vague or completely brushed off the idea of any kind of New Year's resolution, I tried

Upgrading my Office Chair

I've seen a few recommendations for this recently as an easy, relatively cheap, super comfortable upgrade to any office chair. I'm still using my Herman Miller Aeron - which is great - but the clanky old wheels had been a minor but constant annoyance now that I'm on a hardwood

Working from Home

My current working from home setup. Although, with everyone doing it, it’s really more distributed working, and I’m really enjoying it. Being the only one working from home can be isolating, when everyone’s doing it, communication becomes so much easier.

Pick up the pace

I've really enjoyed my reading challenge so far this year. I flew through my first 3 books in as many weeks, but hit a stumbling block going in to the 4th. I chose 'War of the Worlds' as my next read, but have struggled immensely with the age if the