Weeknote 379: Welsh Wales

This week I have learned:

of the unbelievable chutzpah that Blockchain startups have got to package sweet FA into a series of randomised buzzwords that leave otherwise reasonably intelligent professionals in a state of confusion and thinking “Well, it’s so hard there must be something in it.”
that the view from the 40th Floor of the Heron Tower is something else
that becoming a NED might be a way to extend out the things that I do and provide a more consistent platform to help an organisation or two in an advisory capacity.
that analysis and synthesis are very hard to do in the constraints of a computer screen. Sometimes things just need to be laid out on a big table. Big tables for laying things out are frequently factored out when “Smart Working” is introduced into organisations.
also along those lines I’ve started to experiment with Cardflow.
that checklists are a useful thing. Try this one.
AI can at first appear to be witchcraft. Then, when you think about it a bit more, it’s often just database searching using data previously regarded as unstructured. For example: http://imaginarysoundscape2.qosmo.jp/
I’m so bored of the latest tech hype cycles. REPEAT AFTER ME> IT’S STILL ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE. THERE ARE NO MAGIC FIXES. THE HARD STUFF IS THE SOFT STUFF.
What a pleasure it was to do a bit of work with Mr Dave Floyd. Thank the lord he didn’t talk pallets.