Weeknotes

Weeknote 677 – landed

This week I have learned: I've implemented a new AI tool that will personalise these weeknotes to your tastes based on a complex algorithm and data analysis of your previous reading interests. I hope you enjoy the new experience! convincing people that they need something they don't know exists is an interesting challenge. It turns … Continue reading Weeknote 677 – landed

General

Bad Social Science

This is not a "thought piece". This is catharsis. I studied social science research methods at University. When I went to University, it was in the very earliest days of the World Wide Web (actual quote from Information Systems lecturer: "I don't think it will be as successful as WAIS or Gopher"). Back in those … Continue reading Bad Social Science

Weeknotes

Weeknote 675 – building blocks

This week I have learned: the satisfaction and relief when you get a client from "prospect" to signed up and in contract. Mostly it's the relief from worrying if it'll all get pulled at the last minute for some reason. how nice it is to catch up with long-lost colleagues. Fraser, it was a delight … Continue reading Weeknote 675 – building blocks

100 Coffees

155th of 100

Friday's coffee companion is an operations specialist. We talked about... the challenges of running events how the events industry is (or isn't) adapting to the post-covid reality watch parties finding one's niche being the only grown-up in the room implementing processes in a world where processes are seen as the antithesis of how things are … Continue reading 155th of 100

Weeknotes

Weeknote 673: on product

This week I have learned: about products. The usability of a product isn't simply down to its design. It's also down to the user's expectation of what that product is. So if I come to a car thinking it's a horse, I'll be disappointed, no matter how well-designed it is.It's all well and good "reconceptualising" … Continue reading Weeknote 673: on product

100 Coffees

154th of 100

Yesterday's coffee companion is a Product Manager. We talked about: finishing up roles and starting new ones the strange way that procurement works (or doesn't) distance learning and its long traditions how being an early pioneer in a field can become a liability in the long term how inward Product Management can become the differences … Continue reading 154th of 100

100 Coffees

153rd of 100

Yesterday's coffee companion has had many careers. We talked about: being back in Teddington cycling the perils of being a leaseholder how social housing associations really aren't geared for dealing with private leaseholders how cock-up usually triumphs over conspiracy building a side-business repositioning a product to a new audience the joys of double-entry book-keeping the … Continue reading 153rd of 100