The longest possible journey in a single zone  z1 29 stationsEdgware Road to PaddingtonCircle£2.80 z223 stationsStratford to Clapham JunctionMildmay£2.00 z315 stationsStratford International to BecktonDLR£2.00 z412 stationsLeytonstone to Woodford†Central£2.00 z55 stationsWaddon to CheamSouthern£2.70 z69 stationsPurley Oaks to Tattenham CornerSouthern£2.70 z74 stationsChorleywood to Watford‡Metropolitan£1.90 z82 stationsWatford High Street to BusheyLioness£1.90 z90 stations(no possible journey)-- † 1909 weekdays ‡ 0528 Mon-Sat

What do you do? Who do you do it for? Why? Answering these questions, and others like them, is hard work. It can also feel painful, because you commit to being labelled. Even though you contain multitudes, you’re making a decision: you will be known for one thing, for now and in the future. Your […] The post Define your work appeared first on Herbert Lui.

I don't know if you've noticed but I'm on holiday this week. I don't normally go away on holiday so you might have got used to me always being around. But I'm not around at the moment, I am very much away from home, so what you've been reading recently are a number of posts I wrote before I left. As you can see from today's selection, they are now getting a bit brief. Copenhagen in 2019, and before that Cornwall in 2018. That is a long time not to have stayed away overnight. These days I am much more a fan of the extreme day trip where I head somewhere like Sunderland, Plymouth or Paris early in the morning, see everything I possibly can and am back in my own bed by nightfall. Why revel in buying a £20 train ticket if you then have shell out for a hotel room, dinner and breakfast? What's particularly unusual about this trip is that I'm away from home for a full week and I haven't done that for ages. A week is very much a normal period for many holidays but most of my recent jaunts have been long weekends, i.e. three- or maybe four-nighters. This is generally survivable blogwise, I only have to have two or three posts up my sleeve in advance and hopefully you never notice, as when I slipped away to Tyneside in 2017 or Berlin in 2015. A full week is however much more of a challenge, especially given I don't normally have a back-up stash of blogposts waiting in the wings. Northumberland in 2007. We travelled all over and ate out of an evening and I was essentially off-grid for seven days, text messages excepted. From a reader's point of view it meant the blog went quiet for a week, ditto total radio silence when I went to the Outer Hebrides in 2006, If you're the kind of reader who worries if my morning post is even an hour late you'd have hated that, maybe even lost the habit of checking in, it being ever so easy to lose a regular audience by failing to turn up. Which means that when this hiatus is finally over you can expect a slew of posts about my travels, maybe several days worth, just as I subjected you to lengthy travelogues in the aftermath of Copenhagen, Cornwall, Rome, Berlin etc. This merely extends the abnormal period to a week and a bit - a lot of nothing followed by a lot of sightseeing chat - but hey, you'll cope. Consider this a timely reminder that I'm not contracted to provide you with a lengthy post to read every morning, sometimes I go out instead and just occasionally I go away.

In an ideal world, you’d be prepared for everything you want to participate in. That’s not realistic though. New opportunities pop up all the time. It can feel tempting to want more time to prepare for all of it. What tends to happen is you don’t have energy to, or you’re not able to prioritize […] The post Participate, even if you’re not prepared appeared first on Herbert Lui.