This week I have learned:
- You just know when things click. It’s been a busy few weeks with keynotes and workshops and they all went pretty well. Lots of things that can be improved, but that’s always the case.
- I’ve come back to Euan Semple’s idea of Trojan Mice again. Smuggling things into organisations and sectors in ways that disguise them. I’m coming to the conclusion that talking about “creativity” is fine for some folk, but not for others. My randomness work is reframing things in a way that might land more effectively with some of those others.
- In my mid-thirties, I ran workshops 7 hours a day for 3-4 days each week. I was younger then.
- There will be more on this soon, but the experience of creating a workshop and then trialling it using an LLM was very useful. It also created a fascinating competitive dynamic for the human participants—can you outperform the machine?
- Working with international audiences is challenging. Invariably, everyone works in English. British native English speakers (myself included) need to remember that idioms and cultural references don’t translate, and (possibly more importantly) international English is actually American English a lot of the time. Two nations divided etc.
- Amsterdam is a glorious city.
Next week: a level of normality
The week in photos:
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