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Sea's The Day

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Notes from a little yellow shed by the sea.

A figurine of NCS: bald, black glasses, black hoodie, jeans and green trainers, giving a thumbs up

Hello, I’m NCS.

This is where I think out loud, mostly from the little yellow beach hut I built on Lancing beach. Notes on reading, work, life and lighthouses, written when something is worth writing down. More about me.

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  • Putting things away, 2023 TGIM

    Putting things away, 2023 TGIM

    This weekend was an important weekend in our home, it is the weekend we put the Christmas decorations away and begin to think of returning to work. As much I love putting up the decorations, I have learned to love when it ends. You have to, if you want to achieve anything in life. So… Read more

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  • 2023 what will it bring?

    2023 what will it bring?

    I don’t know if you have had this, but I always come up against it when I’m telling a story is this damned difficult problem of where to begin? So it was this morning, when in a sleepy dull state called ‘The 1st of January stooper’ I find myself. I was in desperate need for… Read more

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  • Thinking

    Thinking

    Maybe it is because I attended two funerals in two weeks, maybe because someone in our street took their own life last week, maybe because I caught up with my closest friend this week for the first time in eight years and I know I left it way too long. Maybe it is less recent… Read more

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  • Fear of nothing, hope for nothing and be happier

    Fear of nothing, hope for nothing and be happier

    I have attended two funerals in the last two weeks and learned a neighbour of ours took their own life which really made me reflect on the fragility of life. So I sat in the little yellow beach hut and wrote a brief thought about fearing what might happen and hoping what might happen in… Read more

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  • Reflecting on a week in Zurich

    Reflecting on a week in Zurich

    I am writing this in my little yellow beach hut after a week of travel. A week of networking and listening to customers share their stories. I was in Zurich for a week with work meeting hundreds of customers. The experience was overwhelming at times. The week was a great time to learn and grow… Read more

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  • Incerto Series; Fooled by randomness

    Incerto Series; Fooled by randomness

    I wanted to share a summary of a series of book written by the greatest living philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He created the Incerto series, which is 5 separately published books. Fooled by randomness, The black swan, the bed of procrustes and Anti Fragile. Anyway firstly I urge you to read fooled by randomness, in… Read more

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  • Why me? why not me?

    Why me? why not me?

    Today I want to write about pity and specifically self pity. We all have experienced what Hamlet described as “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” Whether it be an accident or some unfortunate set of circumstances most of us can say we have suffered in some way. Some worse that others but we rarely get… Read more

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  • Resist the urge

    Resist the urge

    Am I positive labelling by writing that most that read this blog want to be better?. Be that better at their jobs, better parents or just better people. I think this is a safe space for us to confront the darker sides of our nature. In all of us there lives an urge, for hearing… Read more

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