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
Today's coffee companion is a journalist. We talked about: How much the media landscape has changed in our working lives How few media people understand technology How big tech people don't understand media How many professionals believe their discipline is the answer to all problems The troubles for the Murdoch empire Career changes A career … Continue reading 88th of 100
Yesterday's second coffee companion is a colleague. We talked about: how we got to be at Equal Experts the strange culture of advertising agencies, and digital agencies in particular how different it is where we are now the origins of my PlayCards how curiosity is an emotion, not a skill some of the challenges in … Continue reading 87th of 100
Today's first coffee companion is a marketer. We talked about: the origins of 100 Coffees and the idea of intentional serendipity the need for working in groups when looking for work the slightly icky nature of when personal branding becomes rampant self-publicity the way that blogging or podcasting or writing a book can open doors … Continue reading 86th of 100
Today's coffee companion is a product person. We talked about: the rare sight of a bustling office how dreadful open plan is for taking Zoom/Teams calls the private education sector, and how difficult charging VAT on school fees might become (they currently don't have tax because they are a tax-exempt category). how the congestion charge … Continue reading 85th of 100
This week I have learned: That a reasonably well-designed survey can through a bit of analysis help shape focus for deeper qualitative work. It's been quite a while since I've designed a survey. The ideas from Nudgestock last week have been sticking with me this week. The idea of winning arguments or solving problems. I … Continue reading Weeknote 641: statistical
Nudgestock, apparently the world’s biggest festival of behavioural economics, happened last week and I was fortunate to be in attendance in the Old Truman Brewery in London. The year’s theme was “messy”, something close to my own heart. Mess is, to my mind, a prerequisite for creative thinking. Here are 8 messy ideas I collected … Continue reading Eight messy ideas from Nudgestock 2023
This week I have learned... There might be another book idea in me along with the How to Have Coffee guide. The working theory is that the forces catalysed at the point of the pandemic that led to our now hybrid world of office work stemmed back 20 years or more and that "everyone in … Continue reading Weeknote 640: another book
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