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
Today's coffee companion works for Spotify. We talked about: intentional serendipity the beautiful city of Stockholm how one's identity is shaped around the space in which one lives accidentally ending up in Newark the processes for innovation that happened at Bell Labs how "Innovation" is an over-used term measuring the right things (and not measuring … Continue reading 90th of 100
This week I have learned: the power of shared experience. Five old friends in a remote field, drenched from horizontal rain, all to watch a film that not all of us like. It was brilliant and well needed. Hadrian's Wall is rather impressive. Never seen it before. Not the most ethically sourced of constructions, mind. … Continue reading Weeknote 642: Are you the farmer?
Today's coffee companion is a communications strategist. We talked about: growing up in a pub navigating places by pubs Pete Brown's A Man Walks Into A Pub the not particularly real choices when it comes to schools the poor state of SEN in most private schools how Cisco helped BT manage AOL (and how BT … Continue reading 89th of 100
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