This week I have learned:
- August is a funny month. You can pretty much guarantee that anything that people say will need to happen in the month will not unless it does. This makes contingency planning tricky.
- Japan was an incredible experience. As a tiny vignette of the cultural differences, in Japanese cities there are no litter bins. There is also no litter. At some point cash-strapped UK local authorities will spot this and suggest removing litter bins to save money. This would be misinterpreting causality in a very messy way.
- Travel makes me appreciate my own locale in a different way. I’m more observant of the world around me again having been in a different place for a few weeks.
- Back to the work, and have been surprised how many colleagues I have bumped into in the office one what I thought would be a very quiet week.
- Youngest accompanied me into the office yesterday morning because he was curious about office life. That feels like a parenting milestone.
- I ended up not thinking about the book project while away. Deliberately not thinking about it has unlocked some thinking and I think there is now an overriding hypothesis to test.
- The next couple of months have lots going on, and I’m looking forward to (in sequential order) The Richmond Events CDO forum, where Chris & I will be running a session about podcasting, Marcus Brown’s Summit in the Bavarian mountains, a run of Equal Experts co-working days, a trip to Slovenian with a few mates, and a talk at Manchester Tech Week about randomness in a swimming pool. That’s because the talk takes place in a swimming pool, not because swimming pools are random. Even though they probably are.
Next week: Strategies
The week in photos:
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