This week I have learned: - to remember how much more fun it is to work as part of teams - ... and the fun of idea exploration - that obfuscation is the world's most ironic word - that maybe everything is a side project Next week: more sporting bodies and the continued adventures in … Continue reading Weeknote 235: thinking as a platform
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Things I have learned this week: - the St Pancras Hotel has an outrageous policy for people wishing to buy coffee in their lobby - sitting at the same desk every day isn't conducive to my best work - we, as a species, are pretty good at ignoring history and thinking everything is new - … Continue reading Weeknote 234: spring-like
Things I have learned this week: - I love it when a plan comes together - the art of business plans is the application of robust logic to a complete fiction - an empty stadium is a remarkably emotive place Next week: prospecting
Things I have learned this week: - when push comes to shove, finance people simply cannot get agile approaches. They'd prefer to inhabit a land of fiction. - only 3 of the 11 members of the House of Lords Select Committee on Digital Literacy have a Twitter account... - ... but two of those three … Continue reading Weeknote 232: Pleasing Palindromic Perfection
Things I have learned this week: - every time I update the stamp website I take more out - diary management as a free agent is without doubt the biggest challenge; being at the mercy of others, and also maintaining one's own diary competence - writing vaguely about Big Data on LinkedIn gets a lot of attention … Continue reading Weeknote 231: juggling appointments on the knife edge
This week I have learned: - I really do have quite a visceral, gut reaction to the concept of being measured in judgement by a third party (which in turn means you really should VOTE FOR ME) - randomly-plucked words can lead to some entertaining blog posts - as can a bit of self analysis - people … Continue reading Weeknote 230: making connections
So what's the point of all this social network stuff, eh? It's just sharing pictures of cats and avoiding doing proper work, isn't it? Well, for some that's undeniable. And for some of us, some of the time, it's probably true as well. But I thought I'd do a bit of an ROI analysis of … Continue reading The power of the network
What I have learned this week: - what one expects to be a relatively simple task can turn into a Herculean effort - I'm really rather proud of it, though... http://stampsocialceo.com/ - the soft stuff continues to baffle the logically minded - and I'm rather excited about watching Watford on the telly tonight. Which probably means … Continue reading Weeknote 229: letting the babies leave the nest
This week I have learned: - scheduling work is like a jigsaw puzzle where the pieces keep changing shape - security is a way of justifying just about any daft idea without thinking - looking back, there are (so far) two places that I have really loved working - life would be so much easier … Continue reading Weeknote 228: the pipeline
Over the past few years I've toyed with the idea of writing a book. I'm writing pretty much constantly, so pulling together some focus on the themes to produce a coherent tome couldn't be that hard, could it? And a book would give me credibility that a mere blog doesn't have. Would give me something to talk … Continue reading What is a book?
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