Doug

A happy ending

Enjoyed a really good lunch at the Hoxton Apprentice on Wednesday – excellent food, thoroughly recommended. However, this is really the end of a good story….. On Monday of the previous week I had wandered out from Brick Lane to Spitalfields to find some lunch. As I passed some bike racks I noticed a messenger …

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Hope at last…..

After eight years of despair at the messages and actions emanating from the United States, at last I feel there is cause for real hope. The election of Barack Obama is a sign of something far bigger than just a shift from Republican to Democrat. It is a sign that, as a nation, America is …

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Good food at Leon

Having lunch in Leon, Spitalfields. I do enjoy the food here. Tasty, well prepared, reasonably priced. friendly staff AND healthy too. On the business front it's a great place to place to hold relaxed meetings, particulalrly outside peak times. They're all over London, take a look at the website for locations. Thoroughly recomended – try …

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Nudge

I'm currently listening to the audiobook of Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. It's a fascinating and fun book that looks at the poor choices we tend to make in all sorts of everyday decisions, often because we are influenced by natural biases, misconceptions and inertia. The authors suggest that these behaviours are simply …

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