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
This week I have learned: why I tend to cycle to work now. Had a couple of days going in to London on the train and was reminded of the delays, the crowds, the subterranean tube... I also found out that the bike ride, even though electric, means I use up about 900 calories each … Continue reading Weeknote 648: feedback
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
Today's coffee companion is a data person. We talked about: how we first got to know each other (possibly one of my previous community ideas, Freerangers) how my blog and I are indistinguishable how my brain processes things in the medium of a 500-word blog post working with Government the resurrection of the large SIs … Continue reading 107th of 100
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