I was in equal parts bemused and upset with the announcements by the Prime Minister yesterday shifting back the timing of a number of commitments to decarbonising the UK economy. The politics at play here are of the most cynical electioneering. Sunak is making grand policy pledges about things that won't happen for another seven … Continue reading Slow data
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Today's coffee companion is a former colleague. This coffee is the first that has taken place in three countries as the call took place as she travelled from her office in Copenhagen to her home in Malmo. We talked about: how our respective families are getting on the ageing impact of teenage children the way … Continue reading 108th of 100
I was chatting with a friend of mine this morning about the seeming dearth of creativity in her students. Students who are doing a degree in Creative Industries... It reminded me of a particular point in my schooling which in hindsight was pivotal in my own self-belief in my creative abilities for many years. I … Continue reading Drawing a line under creativity
How many organisations have all of their employees working in the same physical location? I'm sure some do, but my hunch is it's the exception not the rule. Whilst one's own experiences are nothing but circumstantial, as I look back at my career, I can't think of a single place where it was the case. … Continue reading All in the office?
This week I have learned: that a chance conversation over coffee with someone in San Francisco can be the starting point of a series of actions that ends up with my dad going viral on Twitter. No one saw that coming. the peaks and troughs of account management are bizarre. Weeks pass quietly and then … Continue reading Weeknote 644: Viral
Nearly seven years ago, Chris Weston and I set up WB-40, a podcast loosely about technology. We didn't really know what we were doing, and if you listen to some of the early episodes, that is abundantly clear. A few years later, we were asked to help train some people in a government department technology … Continue reading How to make a podcast
Nudgestock, apparently the world’s biggest festival of behavioural economics, happened last week and I was fortunate to be in attendance in the Old Truman Brewery in London. The year’s theme was “messy”, something close to my own heart. Mess is, to my mind, a prerequisite for creative thinking. Here are 8 messy ideas I collected … Continue reading Eight messy ideas from Nudgestock 2023
Today's coffee companion is a data person. We talked about: the huge great hype machine that is going on around LLMs and machine learning the lack of qualitative data in business and organisations Goodhart's and Campbell's laws the strange cycles that emerge around financial periods ownership of data (or, more often, the lack thereof) how … Continue reading 76th of 100
Today's coffee companion is a marketing consultant. We talked about: the nature of coaching getting into organisations through one's professional discipline the tech hub that is Leeds conferences the loneliness of free-range working the surprising cross-over between our networks despite geographic distance the way that timezone might be a bigger gap in how networks form … Continue reading 74th of 100
On this day in 2022, I entered the Equal Experts offices in Farringdon, London, for the very first time as an employee. After nearly three years in my last role, I'd got to a point where I knew that I'd done enough to get RHP onto a different track, and it was time to do … Continue reading One year on…
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