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
Today's coffee companion is a colleague. We talked about: the advantages of degree apprentices switching from a big consulting firm to Equal Experts new parenthood the last opportunities for travelling before the tyranny of school holidays hovercrafts electric vehicles bad user experiences leading to companies exposing their divisions Barbados the new football season Sean Dyche … Continue reading 95th of 100
Today's coffee companion is a marketer. We talked about: how going for coffee becomes easier when you go freelance the emotional blocks and perception of decadence from freeing up time for something like coffee how something turns up out of one in six coffees building business after the pandemic how the post-pandemic period is now … Continue reading 94th of 100
Today's second coffee companion is a writer. We talked about: the serendipity and humanity that's missing in life how the internet means we get less spontaneous - checking reviews, checking the surfing forecast, checking availability the importance of history James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed the way that the tech industry thinks it's inventing … Continue reading 93rd of 100
Today's first coffee companion does agile delivery. We talked about: out-of-season holidaying, and how August closes down (but is a good time to get some work done) going to events in succession how different events, on the same topic, can have such different feels the delights of eclectic events adapting organisations to the world of … Continue reading 92nd of 100
This week I have learned: Italian train ticket machines are even more confusing than UK ones. Emilia Romagna is a beautiful bit of the world. some of my former team colleagues from my days at Imagination still talk about some of the things that I did (in a good way). Intentionally unintentional feels like a … Continue reading Weeknote 643: Bolognese
Today's coffee companion is a colleague. We talked about: the paths that brought us to where we are today experience of clients in common large corporate culture, and the lack of trust that's often on display compliance over value giving guidance to experts, and the potential power of checklists people who make a career out … Continue reading 91st of 100
Nearly seven years ago, Chris Weston and I set up WB-40, a podcast loosely about technology. We didn't really know what we were doing, and if you listen to some of the early episodes, that is abundantly clear. A few years later, we were asked to help train some people in a government department technology … Continue reading How to make a podcast
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