Rufus Evison advises new businesses

Rufus Evison is now posting business advice for start up companies at the start up blog!

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The purpose of meetings.

One of the reasons people start their own companies is to avoid useless meetings. I have therefore written a piece on the reasons why it makes sense to have a meeting so that you can avoid purposeless meetings.

Another successful week of posting my blog on starting a business more regularly.

Hooray!
Rufus Evison

See more progress on: Write my blog more regularly

A useful online tool

I came across an interesting search engine called Quintera. It shows you the search results as a tag cloud. Here is a tag cloud for "Rufus Evison" to give you a feel.

The same search engine comes up with a list down the right hand side (about as this text is) that is a more familiar style list of links. I would not say it is the best search list I have seen but it is far from the worst. The tag cloud whilst a bit poorly executed does give an idea about the thing you are searching for which is more than is generally available and could easily provoke you to create a pretier version for a presentation to the board.

Rufus Evison

MY SON CAN READ!

On Sunday my son did something that I am going to call the start of his being able to read. He has been playing with learning to read for a while. He has been able to puzzle out words when asked to by looking at the letters and trying to say them and so forth. What he did on Sunday was to be playing at something else when he saw the words on and off on one of his toys. Without thinking he read on/off. It surprised him and so he told us what it said.

Before that he might have asked but he would have been clearly working it out before hand. It is the act of reading rather than working out what the word is that was new. I am delighted for him as he has reached that age when he wants to be reading.

Normlly these things are so gradual that you cannot pick a place and say "that is when it started". When there is an exception to this it is wonderful to behold. I remember the day that my Daughter first started walking. Before then she had moved from place to place whilst remaining upright but she was not really walking. It was only when she walked a few steps without thinking what she was doing that I felt she was walking. She was really rather surprised and when she realised proceeded to look herself up and down to work out what had just happened. She then tried a tentative step and fell over. It was clear to everyone that she could walk within a day or so, but that moment was the turning point.

I feel that Theo has reached the same turning point. It wil be a while before he can read anythign put in front of him but the mental switch has flicked and now it is just a question of writtern vocabulary.

My son can read!!!
Yay!

Rufus Evison

Quotation from Theodoric Evison Aged 3 1/2

I already know that.

I knew that before I was born!

I knew that before I was in your tummy!!

I knew that when dinosaurs were real!!!