Category: Weeknotes

This week I have learned: it's so much easier to get something out of one's head when you've made a commitment to others (thanks Nicole for prompting the Comb-shaped article) there's a difference between a machine surveillance and human surveillance. I'm way more worried about how people seem to be spying on people (like with … Continue reading Weeknote 259: connections and combs

Things I learned this week: nailgunning a ruggedized laptop to the fence outside of head office is about as explicit a piece of user feedback as I have ever heard the #sharingorg project is going to be massive fun my new office is better that yours I love it when a plan comes together (thanks … Continue reading Weeknote 258: in which I learned new definitions of user disatisfaction

Things I have learned this week: the website for requesting a new business bank account at HSBC is a horrorshow The Sharing Organization project is GO! (but that "z" is going to piss me off) (so much for a global language) Membership of The British Museum is possibly the best value co-working space in London. And … Continue reading Weeknote 257: up and running

Things I have learned this week: it appears that Salesforce are living the dream of Utility Computing by having customer service as bad as that of the average telco or energy company some people continue to seem surprised that I can make real-world connections with people through all of this social networking malarky change without … Continue reading Weeknote 256: 8 Bit

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

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