Category: Weeknotes

Things I have learned this week: - a roomful of project managers will inevitably want everything run as a project - the "out of the box" experience of a new PC is, quite frankly, as shit and confusing as it ever has been - ask a room of senior working people how many have been … Continue reading Weeknote 240: pratfalls

Next week: normal service is resumed

What I have learned this week: - fire coming from the road is generally a bad sign - there's a great deal to be said for working in partnership Next week: an Easter break

Things I have learned this week: - making progress is so much easier when working with others - for all the talk of new modes of working, some people are unable to see anything as a "job" being a "job"; not sure if they or I are more foolish - the boundaries of technology, workspace design and … Continue reading Weeknote 236: new alliances

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

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