Today’s coffee companion manages products.
We talked about:
- how the tyranny of Outlook and Teams means that we are now talking about 2 minutes being “Fashionably Late”
- rude diarising
- the guilt of taking coffee
- 90 minute lunch breaks and them being expected to be taken
- my current Protestant Work Ethic obsession
- alternatives to Powerpoint, and the resulting motion sickness
- a continuum that spans from Sombre to Serious through to Wacky. Work works best in the middle.
- just because someone’s face rests in a certain way doesn’t mean they’re necessarily miserable
- the bending of reality in modern conferencing tools, and why Google seem to think Sombrero setting is a business necessity
- the strange tendency for senior management in some organisations to use Fancy Dress as a way to show humility
- how that might explain Sombrero setting
- John Willshire’s latest card deck
- sleeper trains
- opening up a climbing wall in an old shop
- how city of culture should mean more than merely arts
- The Peckham Experiment
- spending time on birthdays with people one likes
#100Coffees is an experiment in being intentionally unintentional. Why not take part? https://calendly.com/matt-ballantine
Closing stats for the week…
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