To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests. Hilary Gallo suggested this one. Looking back, I’m not sure that people who didn’t live through it can quite understand the pressure that there was on the New Year’s Eve party of 1999. … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: The party you had in 1999
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To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests.Peter O'Rourke asked me these questions: The one blog your proudest of, and why? There are two, one sensible, one silly. Plus a short series of four posts that are really one long post … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: Some questions
This is my 2000th blogpost. Rather than simply write a normal post, or indeed write a post about it being my 2000th blogpost, I decided to ask the question on Twitter of what it should be about. I didn't really know what to expect, but as a result of the query I've now got the … Continue reading Blogpost 2000
Through the month of February, the wonderful Steve Chapman has been running a daily artistic event #WTFeb. On February 18th the challenge was this: Today’s challenge is to create a minimalist three line poem to express your own instructions for living a life inspired by the wonderful Mary Oliver poem “Instructions for Living a Life” … Continue reading #SAE March – A short poem about life
This week I have learned: the appeal of Japanese fox-based metaphors (cheers Mr Wilshire!)the power of listening to the stories customers want to tell.that The Bullingdon Club really are the crème de la crème.that Data is moving up the agenda.that you really need to know why.that standing is the new sitting. Or something. Next week: … Continue reading Weeknote 523 – 5 days
It's my old friend Dan's fault, this one. Back in the 1990s, when he and I were sharing a house in Dalston, we shared the living room with a ginormous pair of 1970s speakers that he'd picked up a few years previously, second hand. They weighed a tonne, they had tweeters in little cages sitting … Continue reading #SAE February – Kevlar Speaker Cone
This week I have learned this week: How to use SignalThere's no such thing as "just" an ERP upgradeIT doesn't save money. Stopping spending money saves moneyIt's going to be a long three monthsBut at least we have World Cups to see us through Next week: getting some consensus on focus The last few weeks … Continue reading Weeknote 516 – back to it
I've been tinkering with electronic music since my teens - at first a Roland TR505 drum machine and a Casio CZ-101 keyboard. And then in about 1987 I managed to swap my keyboard for a Roland TR808. I can vividly remember heading to Watford Junction station to pick up the package from the Red Star … Continue reading #SAE January – TR808 Buttons
2020. Oh where to start? Well, let's just say that I guess most Corporate "2020 Visions" didn't turn out quite as they were planned in 2015 or 2017 or whenever they were cranked out. What can we learn from this year that kept on giving? Well, first of all that whilst it's utterly untrue to … Continue reading Yearnote 2020
This week I have learned... sometimes you just need to present things in a different way for them to make sense.January is shaping up to be a VERY BUSY MONTH.more about the Housing Data Standardthat maybe "what you would do if you were forced into an emergency response" should just be your planthat as of … Continue reading Weeknote 514: the slow descent
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