This week I have learned: complexity multiplies with connections... ...but a good connection can simplify remarkably quickly corporates can just be so dumb sometimes I have a publishing offer... ...so now it's time to find a few more Next week: a day of exploration, and another birthday. The end of my early 40s.
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This week I have learned: occasionally events occur that really, truly make you take stock and think about how short this whole thing is. They're not the global political/socio-economic. They're the personal. chance encounters are to be engineered as much as is humanly possible it's all about helping people, ultimately. Next week: the last week … Continue reading Weeknote 315: fragility
This week I have learned: The deep reward in doing the random stuff that I do is once in a while being thanked for making a difference. That's happened twice in two days. ERP is deeply misunderstood. Still. The Freerangers needs a new injection of attendees. Even though I write (here) habitually, letting The Book … Continue reading Weeknote 313: Leading Edges
This week I have learned: the podcast has already generated some interesting new interest an entity relationship model still has the power to unpick a circumstance quicker than many other methods pipelines are things to be managed by oil companies. Sales is much more like bagatelle don't catch up with a friend for a while … Continue reading Weeknote 312: last of the old guard
For many years IT departments struggled with the idea that the way in which they delivered services should be based around delivering to the needs of their business. Technology projects would be self-serving, and as a result often fail to deliver anything of value. In the 1990s we started to see the rise of business case-led … Continue reading The need to play
This week I have learned: trying to get clever with hardware is all well and good, but if you miss the fundamentals it matters not one jot I've been a Chromebook fan for ages, but since embracing Android apps on ChromeOS a few weeks ago, it's now entering a new phase of fanboidom Chasing numbers … Continue reading Weeknote 311: hiss
This week I have learned: - you know you are getting old when Shadow Ministers look like they've just left college. - problems get solved when people come together. Invariably they are created when people work individually. - the mechanics of the new project are a surprisingly complex example of play and integration of skills … Continue reading Weeknote 310: psychopathic guillotines
This week I have learned: I'm really not going to put up with being told that the reason Brexit won't work is because people who don't support it are talking it down. That's like saying the EU fails because people who didn't like it talked it down. If you honestly think that 37% of the … Continue reading Weeknote 309: Xenophobes
As I continue to explore themes and topics as part of the research for my book, I'm stumbling across interesting resources that can help individuals and organisations to up their capabilities to play - particularly play of the tinkering variety. This page will be a reference point for them along the way... Creative Toys 130 … Continue reading The Play Book Toybox
This week I have learned: - Silicon Beach was a wonderful opportunity to hang out with some brilliant minds, some new, some known already. - going back somewhere after a period of rapid change can be a bit parallel universey - we like bundles. Consuming unbundled stuff is a cognitive (over) load. Next week: focus … Continue reading Weeknote 308: the beach
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