Just about 20 years ago I headed into the BBC Worldwide offices at Woodlands, the dirty brown office blocks on the wrong side of the A40 for the very last time. I went to my desk in C Block, put down my bag, headed to the loos, locked myself in a cubicle and burst into … Continue reading Weeknote 711 – Yearnote 2024
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This week I have learned: there's been so much illness about for the last few weeks. I've felt various levels of crappy for the last fortnight, and many colleagues in many locations have had varying levels of illness over that period too. I can't remember an end of year where I've been looking forward to … Continue reading Weeknote 710: the last fizzle…
This week I have learned: a different interpretation of thinking about the future that resonated with me massively. Johannes, this week's WB40 guest, talked about how thinking about the future is a hugely useful way to understand what you should do in the present. That chat was then the final piece of the puzzle when … Continue reading Weeknote 709 – futures
This week I have learned: after another successful circumnavigation of the sun, I feel about 64 rather than 54. I've got a sore leg (the result of a "sporting" injury) and a head full of snot. I got to catch up with a former colleague who now works for the Football Association, whose offices are … Continue reading Weeknote 708 – coldy
This week I have learned: You can go from thinking something will stop to completely the opposite in just 5 days. I'm unsure if I could do my job if it weren't for a need to keep people happy. That can be exhausting at times, though. After two weeks on the road, it was nice … Continue reading Weeknote 707 – turn around
This week I have learned: You just know when things click. It's been a busy few weeks with keynotes and workshops and they all went pretty well. Lots of things that can be improved, but that's always the case. I've come back to Euan Semple's idea of Trojan Mice again. Smuggling things into organisations and … Continue reading Weeknote 706: workshopping
This week I have learned: about the delight that is Manchester Tech Festival. A very different event to the usual male-dominated nonsense in the industry. A huge range of people, thinking and conversation. that the hard work is worth it. You can't avoid it. If you want to make an impact you do need to … Continue reading Weeknote 705: MTF
This week I have learned: that starting with a new client is a relief after a long period of thinking about how we might start working with a new client. Prep is important, but it's easy to over-extrapolate. I've had a week of pretty much not thinking about next week's presentation. It's embedded in the … Continue reading Weeknote 704: Starting
This week I have learned: I do enjoy the forming part of the process of team building. Getting everyone together, getting to know one another and getting clear about where we are heading. Jumping to conclusions can be dangerous. Chesterton's Fench idea of understanding why something exists as it does before trying to take it … Continue reading Weeknote 703: Forming
This week I have learned: some fascinating insights into the medium-term strategies for Meta. One thing that is starting to become clear is that from building LLMs to using off-the-shelf LLMs, we'll quickly be at the point where we'll simply enable the LLMs built into the products we use. If you're building an LLM for … Continue reading Weeknote 702: commodities
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