Category: Projects

This week I have learned: I'm getting better at understanding what gives me energy and what drains me. It's been a week where I'm probably energy neutral overall. The bigger the organisation, the harder things get. I'm convinced of this. Public or private sector, it's the scale that drives inefficiency. Unilateral activities in one place … Continue reading Weeknote 773: a throw of the dice

This week I have learned: The joy to be had from conversations to explore ideas and plot paths. Today should have been the day that Random was launched. Events conspired. But it was a joy to hear that the production processes have now concluded and there is a shipment of 750kg of randomness is now … Continue reading Weeknote 772: connecting

This week I have learned: in the PlayCards that I built a few years ago, one of the suggested actions was to attend a conference in a field that you know nothing about. I sort of did that this week with a trip to The London Book Fair and I found it, for the most … Continue reading Weeknote 771 – bookish

This week I have learned: I'm going to be upping my short-form video content as I get ready for the book to launch. Here was my first, slightly half-arsed attempt. They will improve. Talking of the book, it has at last gone into production this week. A series of random delays - just the Suez … Continue reading Weeknote 770: backtoback

Things I have learned this week: I'm incredibly privileged to have the group of friends that I do. Still no news on the publication date I'm ready for London Book Fair the week after next, though! Doing lots of one-to-one meetings with a big team is proving hugely fruitful, but also very draining. Trying to … Continue reading Weeknote 769: back to it

This week I have learned: You've got to be in it to win it. If you don't ask you don't get. And similar sayings. I don't think I'm ever going to get truly comfortable with talking about my strengths. But I have reached a point where I'm able to acknowledge them and highlight them. That's … Continue reading Weeknote 768: West Coast

This week I have learned: that I had hit a moment where I was feeling that things were happening to me, out of my control. Time to lean in, and take a role rather than wait to be given one. Hopefully that’s been helpful already. the Random talk seems to work. I delivered it to … Continue reading Weeknote 767: leaning in

This week I have learned: sometimes consulting feels a bit like being part of a David Attenborough production, watching things in their natural habitats. I'm increasingly of the view that talking about software products distracts from the bigger message of the move from a project-based approach to software delivery: namely, that a piece of software … Continue reading Weeknote 766: establishing

This week I have learned: Getting people together to think and talk is of such value. I'm increasingly using audio recording and NotebookLM to analyse after the fact. It means everyone can focus on the conversations. Production complications might hit our release date. It's been a busy week, with big set pieces for both of … Continue reading Weeknote 765: directions

This week I have learned: a series of events happening in quick succession can often become a pattern in our minds, even when they are merely a random coincidence. The Availability Heuristic can then amplify that pattern-creation. It's a phenomenon called Apophenia, and it's something that I have studied at length in the work for … Continue reading Weeknote 764: Apophenia