This week I have learned: The fun to be had by encouraging people to be evil (as a learning activity)That Miro seems to be pretty goodThat someone's you need an outsider's validationTim Geraghty does good presentationsI really don't like flag-wavingThis is probably still the beginning of the beginning. Next week: coaching The week in photos:
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I’ve dabbled with electronic music since my teens. Orbital felt like the sort of music that I would have created if I had had more time and a bit more talent. It’s very British music. It’s very electronic music. And their second album (the Brown one) is a wonderful work. https://open.spotify.com/album/1JYyYFJSYrXMHLe7Dz1B3W You can see the … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 1993
This week I have learned: the sheer delight of proper remote workingthe sheer delight of purchase order processinghow there might be opportunity to use sentiment analysis to drive real data into customer journey mapshow people light up when they are asked to look at problems in human terms.I know a frightening number of sitcomsYou can't … Continue reading Weeknote 482 – May. Maybe not.
Ah, the Beastie Boys. I never much cared for the hooligan early years, but by Check your Head I was a fully paid up member of the fan club if such a thing had existed and I had bothered to join. I saw them at Glastonbury around this time, I think performing just after Bjork … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 1992
This week I have learned: Oh, there is so much to think about when it comes to what comes after lock down. So it's good that there are some great people willing to think about it... Mary McKenna is "Berocca in Human Form"Cardstock Virtual worked well.Oh boy I'm looking forward to going to the supermarket … Continue reading Weeknote 481: Collaborative
Funnily enough, although the late teens were about guitar music, my university years saw me start to get back into electronica and hip hop. The Orb’s amazing ambient work Adventure’s Beyond the Ultraworld was one of the pieces of music that helped me on that journey. When I started at Loughborough, I was super keen … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 1991
If there’s one album that perfectly encapsulates the guitar music of Britain’s indie scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic is it. Jangly, cute, poppy but maybe slightly sad. It was music like this that led me into my University days up in Loughborough. https://open.spotify.com/album/6CmJJCI3lOn5XVZ68hP9kY You can see the #51for50 … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 1990
A Simon Heath-inspired trio of Easter bunnies The week in photos:
The final of the late 1980s trilogy is The The’s Mindbomb, Matt Johnson’s fourth album and to my mind his best. Working with Johnny Marr, late of The Smiths, created a wonderful piece of work, sensual and political. Quiet and loud. Structured and abstract. At the end of my first attempt at A Levels, I … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 1989
This week I have learned: the power of saying thank you.that we need to start to think about the things we want to keep about "in the office" working, rather than just obsessing about the things we want to change.in the absence of informal communication, diaries are becoming increasingly crammed, making informal communication even harder.that … Continue reading Weeknote 478: business as unusual
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