A couple more virtual (and tea-based) coffee catch-ups today to close off the first week back at work in 2023. The first was with a colleague based in the Manchester office. We talked about how we might as an organisation introduce more Service Design and User Centred Design work into what we do with clients, … Continue reading 4th and 5th of 100
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This week I have learned: about sinkholes. Well, a little bit about sinkholes. A hole opened up at the road at the other end of our street. It's a main road, and it's meant that there's been significant disruption. Buses re-routed and whatnot. The way the local authority, transport services and police have all co-ordinated … Continue reading Weeknote 614: sinkhole
And so the experiment gets properly underway. A fascinating and broad-ranging conversation with a technology architect this morning where we covered a whole load of things. Another tea and this was the first virtual (Zoom-based) session. I picked up on the Enterprise Architecture on a Page initiative (http://eaonapage.com/) which has used some proper research to … Continue reading 3rd of 100
After a bit of a flying start at the end of 2022, I'm now ready for the enormous conversational percolator that will be #100Coffees in 2023. As I alluded to in this recent post, I think that we in a hybrid working world now need to get a bit more deliberate in finding those moments … Continue reading New Year, New Beverage
Looking back on it, I was exhausted at this time last year. Partly that was because of all the stuff that I wrote about back then. But in hindsight it was also in large part because I had reached the end of the line in what I could meaningfully achieve in my last job. The … Continue reading Yearnote 2022
Yes, that's not coffee. It's jasmine tea. I said from the outset that other beverages were available. Today's beverage came after a lovely Chinese meal in Paddington. The conversation was another thriller: My companion is currently working transforming an electoral authority, running national government elections. The scaling challenges are mind-blowing- usually the authority have around … Continue reading 2nd of 100
I know that it's not yet technically 2023, but it's a relatively quiet week and so yesterday I popped into a local cafe to meet with an old connection to have the first of 100 (at least) coffees for the year ahead. It was a wide-ranging and thoroughly enjoyable conversation. We spoke about the changing … Continue reading 1st of 100
This week I have learned: the joy of editing audio with Descript. The usual WB-40 editing process is pretty perfunctory - a minimum viable edit so that I can get the show out on the internet on the same day we record for fear that otherwise it will sit in my to-do list forever. However … Continue reading Weeknote 614: in review
The really big draw for me to join Equal Experts earlier this year was how it is managed. In my role, I don't have a manager. I don't have a performance review or annual targets. The business operates on the assumption that its employees are autonomous and able to get on with things without being … Continue reading 100 coffees*
This week I have learned: that the use of ellipses marks me out as GenX and may well be perceived as passive-aggressive. Thanks to Tom Whitwell for that nugget in here which has seriously made me rethink my approach to punctuation... that listening to the modern dramatisation of Microserfs has been an act of nostalgia … Continue reading Weeknote 613: jingle bells
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