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…
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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
And so the insurrection is beginning. Last week Japanese insurance Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance announced that it was going to be replacing 34 staff with an artificial intelligence that would be calculating payouts (although, it noted, with human oversight still making final approvals). The technology would improve productivity by 30% and the firm expected to save some … Continue reading The rise of the cost-benefit robots
This week I have learned: I struggle to understand how the "rational" approach to the impending President Trump is anything other than fairly irrational. I am contemplating buying a Mac. Long story. So much of my career has been in roles where the value is a narrative, not a set of KPIs. That can be … Continue reading Weeknote 320: 2017
Another year flies past... If you go into a branch of McDonald's these days (an occasional guilty pleasure, I'll admit it), then you are increasingly likely to find that the restaurant has been upgraded to the new automated model. Big touch screens enable customers to place their orders, pay, and then queue up to receive … Continue reading Yearnote 2016
The circumstances that led up to my meeting with David Schneider are a microcosm of the sorts of things that I think organisations (and we individually) need to do to be able to survive and flourish in our ever-ambiguous modern world. Social networks enable us to make connections with people with an ease that just … Continue reading The Agile Stage
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