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  1. The New Mobile Phone Dilemma Part 1
  2. You can either look at a glass full or half-empty
  3. How my relationship with capitalism is impacting my carbon footprint
  4. Home Energy, Footpaths Challenge
  5. What is your job you do?
  6. Leicester Fixers
  7. And if I am unable to control my emotions
  8. What to do when someone avoid you. Write them a blogpost
  9. Post-truth 2
  10. This week with Eugenie Bitty Arts
All Time Most Popular Posts
  1. To be a successful entrepreneur, you need a genuine love for people 
  2. What my broken boiler taught me
  3. Leicester Fixers focuses on feeling successful and invite others to do the same - A wink to Eric Barker Book - Barking up The Wrong Tree.
  4. Being a Mixed-Raced Post-Doctorate following the Murder of George Floyd
  5. Let's Live Together
  6. Forearm yourself with the Politics of Time and Repair the broken work-centred economy - after reading ''the Refusal of Work'' by David Frayne
  7. About Marle
  8. Leicester Fixers
  9. Money Workshops - Aftermath
  10. Fashionably Compassionate Romantic - Fight against the elements and fracking
  11. Mobile Phone, Joy & Pain 
  12. Interview with my mother
  13. Semantic Web - Web Cleaners - BS job or OCD?
  14. Quetzal
  15. Part 1 : No Water to Draw with or the Colours of Water
  16. Streetbank - Collaborative Consumption is the new Black
  17. Storytelling for paradigm shift #sustainability #circulareconomy
  18. Keynes vs Minsky



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