The personal disquiet of

Mark Boulton

September 29th, 2004

Returning from holiday is rubbish

Everything about return­ing from hol­i­day is rub­bish. From the pack­ing to the check­ing in. No mat­ter how quick your flight it always seems to take at least six hours travel time (in Europe any­way). Why is that? 

Por­tugal was great how­ever. I read 2 fant­astic books whilst away. The first one I should have read a long time ago, it will cer­tainly change the way I design and maybe even change the way I view the world. Don Norman’s The Design of Every­day things, is simply superb. Read it. The other book was Bill Bryson’s A Short His­tory of Nearly Everything which stopped me being scared of Black Holes but made me scared of Neut­ri­nos instead.

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