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
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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
A stupid o'clock start to get to the airport this morning, and in my bleary-eyed funk in the back of the cab I have realised two things. One is totally trivial. Do I need to take the keyboard out of my bag at security checks, a la laptop? I have no idea but people in uniform … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 3: Revelations
I think that one of my motivations in this mobile-only experiment is the attitude that persists in some parts of the IT community, and that was prevalent when I arrived for my short stint at Microsoft back in 2011 - that mobile phones are "content consumption" devices, that couldn't be used for "proper" computing. That … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 2: “Proper” computing
One of the things that has come up a lot from others when launching into this mobile-only experiment is that the screen on a mobile phone just isn't big enough to completely replace a laptop. Screen size is subject to two measures - physical screen size, and pixel size. The Nexus 5 that I have … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 2: screen estate
So I've just about completed my first day of my mobile-only life, and I didn't resort to tablet, laptop or desktop all day. If I was going to crack, I figured this day, working from home, would be the one where it would happen. Very early on I realised that using my phone with a … Continue reading Going mobile: Day1: it’s all in the detail
So I'm at the beginning of the mobile-only experiment. Alongside the phone and keyboard, I've a charger and a Powergen Mobile Power Pack. That latter accessory is nothing new - I've become accustomed to having to lug that spare battery around with me as usually by lunchtime on a trip into London my phone is … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 0
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