Books - Sam Hardacre

Books

A collection of 6 posts

The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

A few months ago, I found myself with a free Saturday afternoon. The kids were at my Mum's for the day, Lu was getting her hair done and on this particular afternoon, The Piece Hall was hosting an afternoon of music including a local band I'd

Commonplace books

I've been finding myself leaning more towards traditional or analogue ways of doing things. I haven't used my Kindle regularly for years (only recently for our trip to Malta), favouring actual printed books. Having tried journaling digitally for convenience and have it fall by the wayside,

Bound to books

A discussion in the OnTheSide Slack community was prompted by a post by Sam King about getting rid (or keeping hold) of physical media like CDs and DVDs. The discussion also turned to books with some members getting rid of books after reading them but I really struggle to do

Releasing the dam

Over the last few months, I've been lagging behind in my reading of web related articles and watching of past conference videos. I've been saving many of them up for occasions when I need to kill some time which, until recently, rarely came along. Since starting

How (and how not) to treat your customers

My girlfriend [http://cheecha.tumblr.com/] currently resides way down south in Kent and once or twice a month I make the journey down to see her and her family for a weekend. The weekend just gone was no different, I caught the train down on Friday evening and for

Outsiders by Steve Lazarides

This Christmas my older brother bought me Outsiders by Steve Lazarides. As soon as I opened it, I did wonder what the book was, at a first glance the cover is a bit ambiguous. Ben quickly noticed my confused look and said that I could exchange it if I didn&