When I started a job as a consultant for a management training company back in 2005, I vividly remember a conversation over dinner with my school friend Cath. “I don't know how you could do that. Whenever I go on training courses I spend the whole time petrified that the trainer is going to point at … Continue reading “And you return the favour”
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This week I have learned: how to make gin that games without rules tend to pan out in ways you don't quite expect those fondest of military metaphors are possibly most likely to get cross when it's suggested to try something else ExCeL London is rather long dumb asides in front of a journalist can cost … Continue reading Weeknote 329: juniper
This week I have learned: - the fascinating idea of linking VR to physical spaces - I'm a liberal. I'm not ashamed of that. I live in the metropolis. Ditto. - it's still so much more than just the systems Next week: playing with Lego in a gin distillery. True story.
This week I have learned: that I have apparently become a product owner (interim) that the key to improvisation is listening (thanks to Neil Mullarky) that Customer Experience should maybe become an optional extra that I bloody love radio Next week: trying to work out what being a product owner (interim) actually means, and a … Continue reading Weeknote 327: playing around
This week I have learned: there's nothing quite like a day spent judging people to find out quite how judgement I am capable of being... technology for technology's sake leaves me cold. for reasons of musical creativity I've moved back onto Windows for the time being. An interesting transition. If you ask a professional for … Continue reading Weeknote 326: if we all ignore it hard enough, it might just go away…
This week I have learned: someone with whom I was very close, yet hadn't seen for about a decade, died. Over six years ago. And I only found out last Friday. The internet has no filter by which to break news like that gently. there has been a lot of stocktaking as a result in … Continue reading Weeknote 325: real life reverse tracking shot
This week I have learned: to stop looking at the news quite so much. It doesn't help. that the eulogies to Graham Taylor are still causing me to well up. Thanks GT. You'll be missed. the free range game is one where you invest emotional energy into the ones that you want to win, but … Continue reading Weeknote 324: ups and downs
This week I have learned: - to never be surprised that people can still be sold the magic of software independently of the hard work of change. - that literally nothing will seemingly now surprise me about the stuff that spouts out of the DJT's Twitter about account. - it's all about timing, basically. - … Continue reading Weeknote 323: half a minute closer to Doomsday
This week I have learned: realising the short-term nature of everything (relatively) is a spur to action. I need to make it more so. I have found my next wave of book-writing motivation. It actually just happened, didn't it? The Orange Man. Actually in power. At what point does perseverance turn into the Sunk Cost … Continue reading Weeknote 322: trumped
2016 was a year in which there was a seemingly endless series of announcements of deaths of people in the public eye. Many of those deaths seemed tragically too early. And in maudlin moments I pondered on who it would be whose demise would really knock me back. There was only one person. And it … Continue reading Weeknote 321: Taylor-made army
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