Today's coffee companion is an expert in agile. We talked about: exploring Ireland being a Londoner how the rough parts are still there, but the gentrified bits are increasingly gentrified the honesty of 1970s architecture how often Bauhaus is misinterpreted the fine line historically between Bauhaus, modernism and arts and crafts when companies provided houses … Continue reading 102nd of 100
This week I have learned: the sheer emotional turmoil of taking part in one of Andrew Doran's Album Club sessions as selector. The basic idea is a group of friends come together to listen to an album chosen by one of them in its entirety. Oh, the responsibility. the joy from coming up with new … Continue reading Weeknote 646: back on it
In December 2022 I set myself the challenge of having 100 Coffees with 100 people over the course of 2023. This week I hit that target. So what have I learned from this experiment where the only hypothesis was “something interesting might happen”? The discomfort of a good book A few years ago, in the … Continue reading 100 Coffees – so what?
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
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