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Barry Schwartz: Choices Worth Having

Just back from an event in Glasgow’s Oran Mor organised by Scotland’s Centre for Confidence & Wellbeing. The speaker was Professor Barry Schwartz.
I have tweeted some of his quotes (@laurieod) and this post is my notes of what he said.
The ‘Paradox of Choice’  – too much choice in certain aspects of our lives (commodities/products etc) [...]

Leaving LTS: 11 days left and far too much still to do

It seems like only yesterday that I blogged about my decison to leave LTS to work for myself. It felt like a big step on the 25th March announcing to the world that I was moving on after 8 years. I really liked being able to blog and tweet my departure (what did we do [...]