Today's coffee companion works for a technology company. We talked about: how my not so new job is going the power of trust... ...and its abject absence in so many organisations IT asset management neurodiversity kids whether Agile has reached its apex or not the challenges of capital investment opportunities to work together Why not … Continue reading 79th of 100
This week I have learned: I'm doing some work alongside the day job of managing engagements, looking at how we establish the teams that align the engagements. That's a bit of a word salad, but it's interesting to me and I'm looking forward to doing it. It's also been really nice to be asked to … Continue reading Weeknote 638: Engagement
In Claire L Evans' wonderful book Broad Band: The untold story of the women who made the internet there is a particularly interesting observation about how a conference held in 1968 in the Bavarian ski resort of Garmisch had a huge impact on the gender bias in the computing industry. In the late 1960s there … Continue reading Prompt Midwives
Today's coffee companion is a product person. We talked about: the delights of Norfolk the way in which the world has become more accepting of neurodiversity (and yet still has a very long way to go) the absolute delights of open-plan offices how the pandemic has changed expectations for working the complexity of maintaining a … Continue reading 78th of 100
Yesterday's coffee companion is a political strategist. We talked about: what we got up to at the weekend expectations around travel, and how our childhood experiences shape us London Detroit Washington DC and the power of the federal government to keep it relatively low-rise how DC was originally supposed to be square the complexities of … Continue reading 77th of 100
Today's coffee companion is a data person. We talked about: the huge great hype machine that is going on around LLMs and machine learning the lack of qualitative data in business and organisations Goodhart's and Campbell's laws the strange cycles that emerge around financial periods ownership of data (or, more often, the lack thereof) how … Continue reading 76th of 100
This week I have learned: that my youngest is doing pretty well at school. The annual parents evening, still a Zoom showreel in neat 4-minute chunks, was nice. getting unsolicited feedback is the best sort. Thanks to John Sills for the lovely write-up of the PlayCards. I spent some time un-DRMing my e-book library. Knowing … Continue reading Weeknote 637: hawt
Today's coffee companion is a colourful soul. We talked about: the disruptive abilities of cats and public transport how the mental models of a city can be changed with new transport options cycling in London my next presentation how the feeling of "imposter" is as much about personal expectations of what others expect from you … Continue reading 75th of 100
Today's coffee companion is a marketing consultant. We talked about: the nature of coaching getting into organisations through one's professional discipline the tech hub that is Leeds conferences the loneliness of free-range working the surprising cross-over between our networks despite geographic distance the way that timezone might be a bigger gap in how networks form … Continue reading 74th of 100
In the 1990s, the Dutch traffic engineer Hans Momderman pioneered a radical approach to urban design known as "Shared Space" or "Naked Streets". At its core was the idea that street furniture, from kerbstones to road markings to signs and traffic lights, stopped people using the space from communicating with one another. Remove them, and … Continue reading Naked organisations
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