Category: 100 Coffees

Today's coffee companion is a Kentish woman. We talked about: being ill growing up without a sense of an "ancestral" home living on a boat moving out of London the delights of procurement working with other agencies yesterday's podcast conversation how last year was a hard year leaving Twitter, and what's replaced it 100Coffees is … Continue reading 144th of 100

Yesterday's coffee companion is a people-focused software person. We talked about: going through the process of realising that the new job simply isn't the right job understanding what parts of an organisation that one can change, and those that are immovable objects German company culture and its inherent conservatism hierarchical organisations striving for certainty and … Continue reading 143rd of 100

Friday's coffee companion is an advocate for mind-mapping. We talked about... the challenging state of contemporary politics if politicians could be replaced by AI if the bizarre ways that voting systems work mean that politicians have been replaced by algorithms already nationalism, separatism and the challenges of discrimination mind-mapping as a way to visualise complex … Continue reading 142nd of 100

Yesterday's coffee companion coaches people. We talked about: the complexities of presenting in a hybrid world ADHD and the risk of burnout the challenges of being young and female in the tech world the joy of adult-to-adult organisations living and working in Slavic countries and cultures second generations and the "home" languages they pick up … Continue reading 141st of 100

Yesterday's coffee companion, the first for a while, is an expert on Culture. We talked about: coming down from the adrenaline of pitch work the wasted effort that gets expended during procurement exercises a "hackathon" with the assessment alternative approach to finding the right partners how the big firms would game it anyway agendaless meetings … Continue reading 140th of 100

Yesterday's coffee companion is a product person. We talked about: the increasingly complicated nature of supply chains how plastics are a way that the oil industry found something to do with its waste how China "invests" in other countries Morgan Spurlock's second film how out of season food seems much rarer in France out-of-season weather … Continue reading 139th of 100

Yesterday's coffee companion is a generalist. We talked about... Testing products Our respective career paths, and squiggly ones T-shaped and comb-shaped people The challenge of being a generalist in the specialism of big corporations Using playful techniques in work The sense of imposter, and whether that's just an occupational hazard for the generalist (who isn't … Continue reading 138th of 100

Today's coffee companion is a coffee-drinking professional. We talked about: the challenges for the neuro-divergent and their parents building self-supporting communities and initiatives the uniqueness of Guernsey, and the pros and cons of island life being able to get to people in positions of power quickly recent experiments and experiences with generative AI the tendency … Continue reading 137th of 100

Yesterday's coffee companion is a thinking magician. We talked about: the experience to date of 135 coffees lunch clubs, and the importance of meeting new people without an agenda the constraints of working life and organisations whether work is a series of roles to be played or not making oneself obsolete as a primary job … Continue reading 136th of 100