After an extended break, here's what I've learned: it's so nice to feel that I'm out in the world again... ...but different clients on different days is much more mentally stimulating/challenging/tiring despite my best efforts to keep within the rules, I have been (at last) censored big organisations aren't the way forward - as I saw … Continue reading Weeknote 254: summer leaves
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Things I have learned this week: - getting project people to think about things that aren't tasks is a fundamental challenges - getting big organisations to contract with small organisations is painful - letting go of comfort blankets is tricky - I might now have had my 15 minutes of Interwebs fame... Next week: 5 … Continue reading Weeknote 253: sunglasses
Things I have learned this week: - old models can still win out, if only by heft and momentum - in the age of the internet you can realise a silly idea in seconds - stopping people from adding everything and the kitchen sink is a challenge - pre-season friendlies are basically an alternate reality … Continue reading Weeknote 252: signals old and new
Things I have learned this week: - there's always something that's going to get in the way of doing a deal with a big corporate - the Tube strike may have just been an enormous experiment to test the Sunk Cost Fallacy - Londoners seem to not know how London is laid out above ground … Continue reading Weeknote 251: holiday season beckons
Things I have learned this week: - London doesn't do hot - a combination of people works wonders for a pitch - distilling big ideas down into consumable parts isn't about using a smaller font - random social media conversations on the train can lead to great things - there again, so can in the … Continue reading Weeknote 250: which feels it should be more significant than it actually is
Things I have learned this week: - it's still all to easy to get sucked into thinking about systems, not thinking about people - and software companies encourage that kind of thing as much as they possibly can - some interesting alignments of ideas yet again from serendipitous meetings - the multi-client juggle has its … Continue reading Weeknote 249: start with purpose
Things I learned this week: - the challenges of parenthood are myriad, complex and ever-present; most of us have received more training in how to use Powerpoint - the social experience when it comes to buying things is, well, a bit shoddy - (it's also quite fun to turn mundane and annoying things into side … Continue reading Weeknote 248: parenting
Things I have learned this week: - asking undergraduates to do a two hour workshop on a Friday afternoon is, well, expecting a lot - but the session at ACM this afternoon was still great fun - getting up and running with a new client can be time consuming, but it's incredibly rewarding... - ... … Continue reading Weeknote 247: ABC
Five years ago I did a bit of a photography project. Five years later and it's time for a reprise of the #summerlookup... Keep an eye out for it here.
Things I have learned this week: - working with a new audience in a new industry should never be underestimated - being "back to back" is as exhilarating as it is unproductive - there are potential clients that I just really would like to work with because it would be real good fun Next week: … Continue reading Weeknote 246: back again (new and improved)
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