This week I have learned: a series of little red lines can still really scupper an entire weeklistening ≠ hearinglower league football is terrific funhowever, weekend train journeys aren'ta room reshuffle is suprisingly energisingmy goodness modern digital pianos are things of beautythere's an opportunity for more game creatingand also an exciting new way to publish … Continue reading Weeknote 570: Best Laid Plans
Category: Themes
I was asked recently why I didn't like fancy dress by someone in the wonderful Cardstock group. I promised I'd blog about it. Some of you might have heard this story before... Without a doubt, the single most exciting day of my childhood came in the 1982/83 school year, my 1st year in secondary school … Continue reading Fancy dress
It struck me last week that organisations claiming to be “data driven” might as well describe themselves as “electricity driven”. Whilst on the face of it a data driven moniker might express some sort of rational futurism in the culture of an organisation, it doesn’t really, ultimately, say anything at all. I think implicit within … Continue reading Data driven?
This week I have learned: that I do think I've cracked the bread baking. Who knew ice cubes were the answer?that I had a surprising prior knowledge of most of the key moments in the early days of drum and bass (courtesy of Renegade Snares)that in person events set against a largely online calendar cause … Continue reading Weeknote 568: replanning
If there is one thing that the last two years have reinforced for me, it’s that I’m inherently an introvert. My wife can’t understand this. “But you go on stage and do talks and go to networking events. You’re an extrovert.” But these aren’t the same things. On stage, speaking or hosting, is a way … Continue reading Introversion
This week I have learned: just when you thought the politics couldn't get any more contemptible, we have a crack down on train announcementsthat progress comes when you devolve powerthat I'm exploring the joy of the Amen break again"it's bad" doesn't universally motivatepressure exerts in strange waysa next level of bread making Next week: consolidation … Continue reading Weeknote 567 – signs of momentum
Do you remember when the fax machine ended? No? No, neither do I. I remember having to scrabble around with a PC that still had a modem in it back in around 2011 to send a fax as part of a mortgage application. I remember around the same time receiving someone else's details in a … Continue reading The end of phone
The history of industrialization is a history of finding scale. Automation of processes so that capital investment in machinery could lead to increased productivity that would, in turn, deliver a return on the capital investment through cheaper to produce, better quality, higher volume goods. The "build it for the exit" model of digital business has … Continue reading Minimum Viable Volume
This week I have learned: I need a breakThat shortbread is categorically the best biscuitThe value of a business caseThat the "constant disaster movie" vibe is getting very tiringSchadenfreude may be all we have in politics these daysWatford's longest clean sheet run comes from a viral infectionThere's always space for another Drum machine Next week: … Continue reading Weeknote 564: no “L”
In the last 12 months I've bought 35 books... and have remarkably read a fair proportion of them. Here's the list (and what I thought about them...). Not all of the books were published in 2021. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World Jevin D. West & Carl T. BergstromThis was a … Continue reading 2021 Bookshelf
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