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What you want to be, doesn’t change what you are without work
2024 reflections
Ella Botting
Jan 167 min read


Q4 reflections
Or Q1 if you're American. I want to write more, but week notes are too hard with the type of work I'm doing and I was super busy at the...
Ella Botting
Mar 22, 20244 min read

Retro: Couch to 5k
SO HAPPY to say that I just completed the NHS's couch to 5k programme
Ella Botting
Feb 14, 20245 min read


30 things at 30
I took a long hiatus from blogging, stopping in May 2020. A couple of weeks into lockdown life. I stopped writing for a few of reasons:...
Ella Botting
Feb 12, 20246 min read


#InterviewSeries @ WebSummit | Mariéme Jamme
The #InterviewSeries is a collection of intimate discussions with people who identify as a woman or a non-binary person in the technical...
Ella Botting
May 13, 20209 min read

April in review | The #InterviewSeries is coming to an end
Image of the lake in Crystal Palace park from one of my isolation walks Well if March was a shit show, April was a shit STORM. It was...
Ella Botting
May 7, 20204 min read


March in review
Well, well, well, where to begin? We're all in the same boat, some of us coping better than others. At first, I have to admit, I didn't...
Ella Botting
Mar 30, 20202 min read


Boundary setting for beginners
And approaching other difficult conversations What to expect in this post: 1) Why boundary setting is important to me 2) What helped me...
Ella Botting
Mar 25, 20206 min read


January in review
Whewwwww it’s been a minute since I’ve had the time or energy to write. But I did intend for my break to be a break and not the end of my...
Ella Botting
Jan 31, 20202 min read


Navigating mental health in the workplace | Part 2 Rob
A career in consulting My name is Rob Graham. I’m a Senior Consultant at Deloitte, where I work on designing organisations that are going...
Ella Botting
Oct 27, 20194 min read


Navigating Mental Health in the Workplace | Part 1 Thomas
My name is Thomas Coleman. I’m a Senior Consultant at Deloitte, where I work on technology and software engineering projects in the Public S
Thomas Coleman
Oct 10, 20196 min read


A Guide To Effective Networking
Lessons learned from attending the WebSummit for the past 4 years.
Chiedza Calpurnia Ishemunyoro
Oct 1, 20196 min read

September (and August and July) in review
It's been quite a tough summer. I haven't really had the energy I usually have for my side projects, for reflecting or for taking care of...
Ella Botting
Sep 28, 20193 min read


Blood Poisoning: Has Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos scandal created a toxic environment for female found
At the London Startup Bookclub we recently read, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.
Chiedza Calpurnia Ishemunyoro
Sep 15, 20193 min read

Why Cloud just works!
Techies today don't know they're born. It is personally hard for me to imagine life without cloud services, but that is because I am a...
Chiedza Calpurnia Ishemunyoro
Aug 19, 20196 min read
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