Category: Weeknotes

This week I have learned: what a beautiful city Budapest is. Well, a beautiful two cities, technically. of the existence of Trinity Buoy Wharf. why you should never let a property developer run a grocer. there are moments where a to-do list is helping but doesn't feel like it. the thinking can be hard sometimes. … Continue reading Weeknote 402 – Payment required

This week I have learned: Actually getting a little bit of time to take a walk is really worthwhile. It's really easy to focus on systems to such an extent that you assume that people have the necessary skills to do what ever it is that the system is supposed to support. Fire drills. Fire … Continue reading Weeknote 401: Unauthorised

I don't blog as much as I used to do. It's that Chris Weston's fault. Since he and I set up WB-40 on a whim back in 2016, podcasting has become a pressure valve for some of my work and some of my thinking and, quite frankly, some of the things that really get on my … Continue reading Weeknote 400

This week I have learned: The August Bank Holiday week is odd, and mildly depressing. The slight chill in the air in the mornings. The "last break until Christmas" feel. When the rubber meets the road, as the saying goes, is when you start to realise how badly the wheels have been fitted. Safety. We … Continue reading Weeknote 399: autumnal

This week I have learned: big, adventurous, active holidays can be more relaxing than sedentary, chill out by the pool ones. coming back after a big adventure is a bit weird. even more so when you come back in what must be the slowest week of the year in the UK bar Christmas. there are … Continue reading Weeknote 398: home

This week I have learned: There's a limit to how much heat I can stand. New clients are like buses. You wait around for ages and then three turn up at the same time. The power of association. "It's in the next release" will be the perennial excuse of evergreen computing. Dominic Raab reminds me … Continue reading Weeknote 397: Heatwave

Things that I have learned this week: Building products is fun. Building products with other people is even more fun. Building products that aren't software is even more fun than that. There's something about the eyes sparkling, moment of revelation thing that's addictive when you are able to inspire it in others. It's why I … Continue reading Weeknote 396: Football

This week I have learned: despite my Irish loyalties, I became involved this time. get out there. Feel uncomfortable. Test yourself. a different talk every time isn't the way to build a business as a speaker. But where's the fun in saying the same stuff over and over again? My little boy's leaving infant school. … Continue reading Weeknote 395: nogomet

This week I have learned: the old Likely Lads thing about not finding out the score is utterly impossible in our connected world. Cambridge is basically a theme park from the mind of JK Rowling and a bunch of drunk academics. That's not to say that it's not utterly enchanting. there are few things as … Continue reading Weeknote 394: Fotboll

This week I have learned: - something of the creative potential of Oblique Strategies - that getting some people together in a room for a day can really move things forward - that I'm quite glad I ended up stuck on an aeroplane for the England game - what a slip diff is and when … Continue reading Weeknote 393: fútbol