And so it continues... This afternoon's coffee companion is a systems thinker. We talked about: some of my reflections on the first 100 coffees Irishness and our individual heritages driving holidays with teenagers experiences of working in the technology industries the re-emergence of Taylorist thinking with the domination of the world of IT trust and … Continue reading 101st of 100
Today's coffee companion is a colleague at Equal Experts. We talked about: missing meetings turning up for meetings ridiculously early (like, by a month) the delights of the West Coast of Ireland the delights of Pembrokeshire the disconnect in holiday expectations between kids and their parents Famous Five fantasies the strange way in which the … Continue reading 100th of 100
In one of my #100Coffees conversations this week I was reminded of a framework I came across in my days of working in Learning & Development called the Kirkpatrick Model. I'll come to the model shortly, but it was recalled because I was talking about a recent conversation I had on LinkedIn about the dangers … Continue reading Value over time
Today's coffee companion is a CIO. We talked about... changing industries the weird world of the security industry R&D organisations over time, and how they used to be populated by people in white lab coats shouting "Eureka!" how changing sectors probably allows you to ask naive questions for longer the "POP" approach to meetings - … Continue reading 99th of 100
Today's coffee companion works in DevOps. We talked about: the nature of what constitutes BIG data, and whether it's possible to describe a scale that starts with a single bit, and goes up into the biggest imaginable sets of data (for example, Visa and Mastercard transactions?). what would be at the top end of that … Continue reading 98th of 100
This week I have learned: the gods of work activity obviously think it's funny to have lots of stuff happen in the week before I go on holiday. Hopefully, everything will be left in a state where it won't be "in a state" when I get back. The way in which money cycles around businesses … Continue reading Weeknote 645: breaking up
Today's second coffee companion is a product person. We talked about: how Edinburgh is a different city during the festival adjusting to a new city when moving during a pandemic the differences between the NHS in England and in Scotland the stretch to make space for an hour of conversation the value in going out … Continue reading 97th of 100
Today's first coffee companion is in business development. We talked about: the strange ways in which incentivisation of salespeople impacts how they and those around them behave what sales without bonuses might look like Italian heritage, and the August shutdown where I got my fear of heights creativity at work, and framing things as art … Continue reading 96th of 100
A few years ago I had a fascinating conversation with a journalist about a particular aspect of the psychology of working in an office. He told me that when he needed to read a book as part of his work, in the office he found it impossible because of an overbearing feeling that reading a … Continue reading A subversive sixty minutes
This week I have learned: that a chance conversation over coffee with someone in San Francisco can be the starting point of a series of actions that ends up with my dad going viral on Twitter. No one saw that coming. the peaks and troughs of account management are bizarre. Weeks pass quietly and then … Continue reading Weeknote 644: Viral
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