Tuesday's coffee companion is an architect of the enterprise. We talked about: middle-aged career challenges revenue-generating roles in the consulting world, and the vulnerability of anything that is not trends in the tech world the inability for AI to say "No, that's a daft idea" random input "meerkatting" avoiding the term "tarot" familial challenges and … Continue reading 133rd of 100
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This week I have learned: designing a workshop which was then run without me was successful, but also a strange experience of creating one's own FOMO. I really enjoy designing and running workshops. To not be present to see how it all panned out was very strange, but has taught me new levels of preparation. … Continue reading Weeknote 659: Remotely
Today's coffee companion manages collaboration products. We talked about: going above and beyond when preparing a workshop that you can't actually attend the challenges of team dynamics, personalities and linear people in wicked problem territories how wicked problems don't chunk down into problems with solutions - they're fractal and have complexity at every level into … Continue reading 132nd of 100
Yesterday's coffee companion is a geospatial data geek. We talked about: the challenges of "not invented here" as a barrier to collaboration and growth the importance of building things the Celtic Cross the craziness of large organisations managers taking it upon themselves to make decisions that have huge resource impact elsewhere the challenges of hybrid … Continue reading 131st of 100
This week I have learned... Keynote Karaoke was a success. I love a bit of serendipity. I caught up with Joel this morning. He mentioned whether I had come across Gabby and the Soil Tarot card deck she was building. Later this afternoon who was giving a show and tell at this month's Cardstock. Gabby, … Continue reading Weeknote 658: improvised
This week I have learned: planning a big event which I won't actually be attending has been an interesting experience. It's forced me to become much more explicit about ideas on how the day will work and how interactions might happen in the room. I'm obviously getting concerned about the way that technology might be … Continue reading Weeknote 657: planning to delegate
Yesterday's coffee companion helps startups. We talked about... the origins of the 100 Coffees project the differences between US and UK work culture how the UK is more Christian yet less religious than the US my bug bear of "compensation" being used to describe pay and benefits the freedom to work where the work needs … Continue reading 130th of 100
Yesterday's coffee companion is a CIO. We talked about... starting new roles being a turnaround CIO the nonsense of the first 90/100 days and how it takes a year to work out which way is really up in an organisation the housing industry silos based on property management versus people management silos based on timeframes … Continue reading 129th of 100
Yesterday's coffee companion is a maker. We talked about: startups, incubators, accelerators and founder matchmaking initiatives pivoting making life choices the importance of being intentionally unintentional making physical objects passion projects whether 100 Coffees could become a platform the difference between transactions and interactions friction and the tech industry's obsession with removing it 100 Coffees … Continue reading 128th of 100
This week I have learned: when you get to meet with people who are just amazing conversationalists, it's wonderful. There were two conversations like that this week. I successfully used ChatGPT for something this week. It helped me to design a game. It made me realise that up until now I might have been deliberately … Continue reading Weeknote 656: chat
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