This week I have learned: - the world of books is beautifully archaic - graduates really do look ridiculously young these days - it's time to make decisions Next week: engage.
(Photo: New Year, Icelandic Style) It's that time of year to get all reflective about what the last twelve months has had to offer. And it's fair to say that 2016 has had more ups and downs than most. But rather stick my head in my hands and rock backwards and forwards until it all … Continue reading Five things I have learned in 2016
Piece of data #1: the average car is parked for an average of 95% of its lifetime. Piece of data #2: 57.5% of the UK population drive to work. Piece of data #3: the average Brit sleeps something of the order of 7 hours in any 24 hour period. Including time either end for going to bed and … Continue reading Self-driving fantasies
This week I have learned: I find it difficult to see an unwillingness to work openly as much more than deep-rooted paranoia. It's also difficult to tell if they are actually out to get you. I'm not sure that camouflage fatigues are really appropriate office wear for the middle-aged man. The larger the organization, the more the … Continue reading Weeknote 317: schadenfreude
It's that reflective time of the year. And a few weeks back my old chum Sean Mills asked me if I'd pulled together a list of recent reading. So here you go, Sean (and the rest of ya). Listed below, in reverse chronological order, are all the books I bought in 2016. Can't say I've … Continue reading The 2016 Bookshelf
There should be a word to describe words that sound like they should be onomatopoeic but aren't. Top of my list of these nonomatopoeic words would be Fungible. It sounds like an adjective that could be applied to describe the properties of the caulk materials that builders use to fill in gaps around woodwork. "Ooh, … Continue reading Fungible
I was pointed yesterday to an article on Harvard Business Review that talked about how machine intelligence was about to change the world. It was interesting enough, although talked a great deal about MI being a "predictive" technology. As I've expressed many times, the human desire for sages of the future is deep and a … Continue reading Plus ça change
This week I have learned: complexity multiplies with connections... ...but a good connection can simplify remarkably quickly corporates can just be so dumb sometimes I have a publishing offer... ...so now it's time to find a few more Next week: a day of exploration, and another birthday. The end of my early 40s.
Over the past few weeks I've been getting a lot of social love from employees of Oracle the world over. A video interview that I did for CIO.co.uk a little earlier in the autumn has been tweeted dozens and dozens of times by people working for the Larry Ellison Relational Behemoth. Well, I say "people". I'm actually not so sure. This … Continue reading The anti-social
This week I have learned: occasionally events occur that really, truly make you take stock and think about how short this whole thing is. They're not the global political/socio-economic. They're the personal. chance encounters are to be engineered as much as is humanly possible it's all about helping people, ultimately. Next week: the last week … Continue reading Weeknote 315: fragility
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