I’ve recently started running. Well, I say running. It’s more like short bursts of below par jogging interspersed with heavy breathing and walking. Yes, I’m doing the Couch to 5k programme. It’s got me thinking about my relationship with sport and exercise. And particularly how ideas of sport and sporting excellence have significantly clouded my … Continue reading Sport
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This week I have learned: the phrase "because of Covid and Brexit" are going to be being used a lot in the next few years, mostly after a statement about something that is bad.not everything is like an Amazon shopping cart. Bad UI design patterns emerge when that is not understood.I feel like I might … Continue reading Weeknote 545: Tiger Team
I'm a Watford fan. You may already know this about me. Being a football fan, particularly being a fan of a smaller club, is a tribal thing. A thing of faith. A secular religion. Every so often The Algorithms suggest that I should be interested in other football teams. Google offers me news articles about … Continue reading Ooo are you?
This week I have learned: how automation can lead to significant errors if you miss human checks that once existed unseen in the manual process.how good it was to at last get to another Cardstock session.that my little boy is growing up fast.that algorithms lack anthropology.that replanning a whole bunch of stuff is a very … Continue reading Weeknote 543 – the long game
This week saw a new addition to the team, a Technical Architect. Except he's been around for a while. I'm firmly of the belief that we need to look to do things better now we have found out that flexible working can work at scale, rather than constantly pining for how things "used to be". … Continue reading Liminal Employment Spaces
This morning I ran a session in which I took my team through an exercise to explore skills and capabilities that we have as we beginning a massive programme of change in the organisation. Here's a few notes on the objectives, the structure and how it went... The Objectives The team has recently expanded with … Continue reading PlayCards Field Notes: a game for teams to explore innovation skills and gaps
Things I have learned this week: There is no such thing as “just an upgrade”.Medium-sized business finance systems is an area ripe for innovative disruption because all of the incumbents are crap.Working with other peer organisations is a great way to get people out of the weeds of pet issues.Ethical decision making should be much … Continue reading Weeknote 539: just another weeknote
This week I have learned: the power of visualisation on a maphow exciting/daunting it is to talk to a designer about PlayCardshow fucking daunting it is to wait for surgery......and then have that surgery cancelledthat the 7S model is still so very usefulthat self-isolation is hard Next week: planning in detail The week in photos:
It's a few weeks now since I started the final stage of my Play project, creating a set of playing cards that distil six or so years of research and investigation into a valuable and practical tool, so here's a quick update for you on progress... First of all, thank you so much to the … Continue reading PlayCards Update
This week I have learned: that such a simple typo could lead to a viral.that having something go a bit viral on Twitter totally makes Twitter unusable.but it's quite fun.purchasing a new car is a mixture of the new an old; sales people in suits and paper receipts (hand written) meet restore factory defaults and … Continue reading Weeknote 536: typo
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