Category: 100 Coffees

My first coffee companion today is a co-host of a podcast. We talked about how we might do some things differently with WB-40, and launch a feedback survey as a starting point. We talked about whether we are still enjoying making podcasts (we are). We talked about how we are both getting on in our … Continue reading 26th of 100

Matt BallantineIs it possible to go for a coffee with ChatGPT? ChatGPTNo, I am an AI language model created by OpenAI and do not have the physical ability to go for a coffee. I exist only as a computer program and do not have the ability to experience or participate in physical activities.Matt BallantineBut what … Continue reading A #100Coffees AI interlude

A quarter of the way there, and yes, I'm front-loading. Today's coffee companion works for a big tech company. We talked about the idea of corporate refugees, and folk who at a certain age and experience flit between jobs in organisations and working for themselves. We talked about how Augmented Reality is with us already … Continue reading 25th of 100

Today's coffee companion is a former colleague who had just got involved in an exciting new venture. We compare notes on experiences since I started my new job, and how my new job is going (good, thanks for asking). We talked about the systemic challenges we have both seen in the housing sector. We talked … Continue reading 24th of 100

Ending the week with a coffee (actually tea) with one of my colleagues at EE. We talked about the ways in which teams working at a geographic distance need to make time and space for conversations that aren't about work, and those need to happen during working hours. We talked about making that sort of … Continue reading 23rd of 100

Today's first coffee companion is a business consultant who helps his clients to understand the need and shape of future products. We talked about the benefits of generalism and how we have both made it a bit of a USP. We tried to work out how we had first got in touch with one another … Continue reading 22nd of 100

My first coffee companion today is a former colleague. We talked about lots of the people and organisations with whom we have worked in the past. Most of it was positive, but little of it should be repeated. My second coffee companion today is a technology consultant. We talked about the difficult period as an … Continue reading 20th and 21st of 100

This afternoon's coffee companion is a project and change manager, and a former world-class hockey umpire (which only came to light in our conversation). We talked about the nightmare that is running more than one Microsoft 365 email account across a Mac, PC and phone. We talked about the way in which being compliant and … Continue reading 19th of 100

This morning's coffee companion is a social media consultant based in Tbilisi, Georgia. We talked about how remote working is much more accessible to people in all sorts of places, and how most of his clients are in the UK. We chatted about how university has become so much more an exercise in seeking a … Continue reading 18th of 100

Today's coffee companion works in the sales team in the UK for a big Cloud SaaS provider. We talked about why I was doing this experiment, and her reflections on a similar experience she had but focusing on lunches rather than coffees, and inspired in turn by Kaley Chu. We talked about the mood of … Continue reading 17th of 100