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
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
Yesterday's coffee companion is a CIO. We talked about... starting new roles being a turnaround CIO the nonsense of the first 90/100 days and how it takes a year to work out which way is really up in an organisation the housing industry silos based on property management versus people management silos based on timeframes … Continue reading 129th of 100
Yesterday's coffee companion is a maker. We talked about: startups, incubators, accelerators and founder matchmaking initiatives pivoting making life choices the importance of being intentionally unintentional making physical objects passion projects whether 100 Coffees could become a platform the difference between transactions and interactions friction and the tech industry's obsession with removing it 100 Coffees … Continue reading 128th of 100
This week I have learned: when you get to meet with people who are just amazing conversationalists, it's wonderful. There were two conversations like that this week. I successfully used ChatGPT for something this week. It helped me to design a game. It made me realise that up until now I might have been deliberately … Continue reading Weeknote 656: chat
Today's coffee companion is a people person. We talked about: working in social media organisations changing companies different national cultures and how they approach work US organisation structures the dysfunction of large organisations being able to put up with stuff moral boundaries at work the Protestant Work Ethic Adam Grant's Give and Take Alice Sherwood's … Continue reading 127th of 100
This week I have learned: I didn't have any 100 Coffees coffees this week. I had coffee (to drink). I actually had coffees with people. But none as part of the project. It feels odd. I'm tempted still by the idea of writing a book. It feels like my own personal Everest. But I don't … Continue reading Weeknote 655 – exciting
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?
Today's coffee companion manages products. We talked about: how the tyranny of Outlook and Teams means that we are now talking about 2 minutes being "Fashionably Late" rude diarising the guilt of taking coffee 90 minute lunch breaks and them being expected to be taken my current Protestant Work Ethic obsession alternatives to Powerpoint, and … Continue reading 126th of 100
This week I have learned: a short break is as good as a rest, or something. Exmoor is very hilly It also seems to completely confuse Google Maps. There was a road closed in the middle of the National Park which seemed to put Google Maps into a complete tizzy. A 55 minute journey ended … Continue reading Weeknote 654 – Exmoor
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