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
Today's second coffee companion is a master of copying. We talked about: being an outsider giving up on marketing gigs the experiences of breaking hierarchies and running an employee-owned business how the experience of the healthcare service would be greatly improved if we could interact not with clinicians but with project managers who were there … Continue reading 114th of 100
Today's first coffee companion is involved with the Centre for Computing History in his spare time. We talked about: the Spark the Change conference where we first met being heckled by a robot the absence of social science understanding in so many senior business leaders (particularly when it comes to the group rather than the … Continue reading 113th of 100
Today’s second coffee companion is a former colleague. We talked about: A busy week How much I’m enjoying working at Equal Experts the trouble with waste knowing which fights to pick with parents taking chances to travel home local authorities and spending cuts having an office self-driving cars how much of sci-fi has actually come … Continue reading 112th of 100
Today's first guest is a CIO for a events company. We talked about: having not really met in person despite not living far away from each other at all the evolving nature of the events business how things have changed since COVID recruiting people better than you admiration of people who can work a room … Continue reading 111th of 100
This week I have learned: that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is a prepper. Something I picked up when listening to the fairly stodgy biography of Elon Musk by Walter Issacson. At first impressions, preppers to me feel like they have the worst view of humanity. That they lack trust in others, and in preparing … Continue reading Weeknote 649: travel
Today's coffee companion works in the health service. We talked about: the challenge of bringing design thinking into public policy creation organisations, silos and how trouble happens at the joins how many dimensions of silo there are in the provision of health and social care keeping accountable people accountable but still co-creating evidence-based policymaking how … Continue reading 110th of 100
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 has made my efforts in having coffee look trifling. We talked about: human scale organisations and connectedness the fundamentally irrational nature of how humans operate how organisations struggle when the place rational measures of control over irrational human behaviours the danger of comparing humans to machines (I'm rubbish at lifting heavy things … Continue reading 109th of 100
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
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