About the only idea from the world of Game Theory that I know that I know is a thought experiment called The Prisoner's Dilemma. It goes something like this: You've been arrested. Your accomplice has been arrested. You are both told that if you snitch on the other you'll be let free. If you are … Continue reading The Prisoner’s D-AI-lemma
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For many years I've held true to a concept that goes as follows: You can exponentially scale transactions. You can change interactions into transactions and then exponentially scale those transactions, but you lose social and cultural meaning along the way. You cannot exponentially scale interactions. They only scale in a linear fashion. My go-to metaphor … Continue reading Simulating interactions
In the years before Covid I often found myself often people who worked in teams a simple question to open up a discussion about the maturity of hybrid working and collaboration practices: Where do you work? The answers could be enlightening. People working for traditional organisations with traditional mindsets would answer in terms of the … Continue reading Where do you work?
The end of the month of October this year marks the end of my first 30 years of post-university working life. In October 1993 I popped into the Select Employment Agency on The Parade in Watford on the off chance to see if there was any temping work going. It happened that they were looking … Continue reading 30 Years of Work
Today's coffee companion helps other businesses be better. We talked about: how contracts and standard Ts&Cs are struggling to catch up with the way in which software and consulting now operates, especially when it comes to IT the 3D chess of working out the potential impacts of standard Ts&Cs how ultimately it all comes down … Continue reading 118th of 100
I was in a very privileged position yesterday to run a couple of experiments with colleagues exploring some ideas that have been percolating out of my #100coffees work this year. Here's what happened... The framing of this work is that if you have gone to the time and expense of bringing people together in person, … Continue reading Conversations at scale
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
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'm the sort of person who has favourite Laws of Social Science. To be specific, my two favourite Laws of Social Science are Goodhart's Law and Campbell's Law. To summarise them, Goodhart's Law states that if a measurement is used as a goal, the meaning of that measure changes (usually for the worse). Campbell's Law … Continue reading Measuring RTO
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
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