Things I have learned this week: - I do like to present... - that culture is a thing oft spoken about but rarely understood - I'm still able to marginally bring down the average age in a room full of CIOs... - ... but push it up in a room full of social media wonks - … Continue reading Weeknote 214: two day eventing
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Things I have learned this week: - searching on the Internet usually yields the answer to anything - first day of school is considerably more stressful for parents than children - explaining product concepts to a complete stranger hones the mind Next week: It's Social Media Week London - why not come and join us on Tuesday … Continue reading Weeknote 213: Braveheart
Things I have learned this week: - that the boundaries of where agile is good and agile is bad are very unclear - being based in London for more than a couple of days a week makes you bump into people you know - coding is the developer's hammer to a world exclusively of nails - clearing … Continue reading Weeknote 212: limits of agility
What I have learned this week:- HDMI can plug straight into DVI (dull, but has changed my use of monitors (and hence my posture), all with a £5 cable...)- Every organisation is defined by it's abbreviations (three-letter or otherwise)- Collaboration is a team sport (my new favourite aphorism)- Agile is incredibly individualistic (blog post to … Continue reading Weeknote 211: OHMS
Things I have learned this week:- never try to get anything sensible done on the August Bank Holiday weekend- I think it's fair to describe my hair these days as "Thinning"- Twitter is increasingly becoming an exercise in me suppressing sarcasm- it's very exciting to get to organise something- and also to publish somethingThis is … Continue reading Weeknote 210: Working 9 to 5
Things I have learned this week: - layers of intermediaries add exponential layers of bureaucracy - never put off for tomorrow what you're scared of doing today - starting a business, building a business and scaling a business are very different parts of the same whole Next week: a long weekend, and then my last … Continue reading Weeknote 209: plate spinning
25 years after receiving my own A-Level results my rusty maths tells me that Weeknote 208 equates to four whole years-worth of weeknoting. Actually the first one I ever wrote was back in May 2010, just as I was about to depart on a trip to see colleagues in Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai in … Continue reading Weeknote 208: Four More Years
This week I have learned: - it's almost possible to live working life without a laptop - offers of work come from the most mysterious places - Twitter is a place for powerful connections to be made - August really is jolly quiet, isn't it? Next week: London on my mind
So at about lunchtime I cracked. Three and a half days into the experiment and I brought out the laptop. At least I'm honest. Now to be fair to me, my day was supposed to be another one where I was out and about in town, and in that case I wouldn't have had it … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 4: Cracked
Responsive Design is a big thing at the moment. If a website has been made to be responsive, it means that it adapts itself to display reasonably sensibly on any screen size (within reason). There are two alternatives to responsive design - do nothing, so that the website appears just as it would on a … Continue reading Going mobile: Day 4: Responsive design
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