William Kennedy Blogs

Latest — 23 Oct 2025

To Spoil or Not To Spoil

Despite attempts to limit news and social media, I'm not immune to the latest trends, and one campaign that has caught my eye is Spoil the Vote, established by popular "right-wing"﹡ online celebrities such as Michael Murphy, Elaine Mullaley and Paul Treyvaud, as well as businessman

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Review: Speaking My Mind by Leo Varadkar

In a review of this book, someone quipped that former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar notices the flaws in others but not himself. Journalists can be quick to throw out an edgy remark, but there is an element of truth to it. Varadkar, for all intents and purposes, was an OK Taoiseach.

Get Good At Hard Things

The better you are at hard things, the easier life becomes. Getting good at hard things is hard hence why people don't do it but you can do it. The more and more time spent on doing hard things, the easier those hard things become. Pretty soon, you

Just Build The Metro

This week, I will be travelling to Amsterdam for RailsWorld. RailsWorld is an annual conference for Ruby on Rails enthusiasts, a web programming framework that prioritises personal productivity at its core. I love Ruby on Rails and I owe it my life, but that's not the only reason