Today's coffee companion runs a small consultancy. We talked about The challenges of being a small business selling to big corporations The way in which time outside a big org appears to be running in slow motion when inside it's going like the clappers Socio-technical thinking the challenge of bringing in revenue, building new business … Continue reading 67th of 100
This week I have learned: 5 days of being with hundreds of colleagues, away for the most part from the day-to-day is a wonderful thing it's also knackering the penguins article has become something of a brainworm. The extent to which we simply don't understand one another is profound, misunderstood, and probably quite fundamental to … Continue reading Weeknote 633: conferenced and out
2/3rds of the way there, yesterday's coffee companion is a designer. We talked about: how design is so much more than graphics my current brainworm about the transfer barrier and how broad collective misunderstanding can be the joy of tactility and how that means playing cards! our collective recent experiences of moving into new organisations … Continue reading 66th of 100
Listening to a talk about generative "AI" last night, it dawned on me that there is a lot of conversation at the moment that appears to be conflating two very distinct issues, namely, the potential near emergence of "Artificial General Intelligence" and an apocalyptic scenario where we see humans losing control to machines. The former … Continue reading Out of control
"It's just semantics" of a phrase that ironically has more than one meaning. There's the face value version, and then there's the way in which it is used to dismiss what is regarded as trivial and unimportant, often by those who get bored by detail. The thing is, it is "just" semantics that too often … Continue reading Pick up a penguin
Metaphors are powerful things. They are core to how we make sense of the world. Good metaphors are a great way to get ideas to transmit. Bad metaphors get in the way of understanding. In the last few months I've been thinking about the metaphor of "technical debt" and wondering increasingly if it is much … Continue reading Technical Credit Card
This week I have learned: bringing people together is wonderful. We've had a couple of days at a CenterParcs with 200 colleagues brought together from across the planet. It's been great to catch up with people who I've got to know over the last year since starting at Equal Experts, and to meet many more … Continue reading Weeknote 632: conferencing
Today's coffee companion is a technologist with impeccable podcast taste. We talked about: the coming AI armageddon how this wave of technology might be different to all the others that technology is changing things all of a sudden that technology change actually takes a long time that lots of jobs will be lost to AI … Continue reading 65th of 100
This week I have learned: a new freedom as I begin my adventures with e-biking to work. I live about 14 miles away from the office, and there are a couple of really quite big hills on the way. Normal biking would leave me a sweaty mess at arrival, whereas I can do the journey … Continue reading Weeknote 631: ebike
Today's second coffee companion is a project and programme manager. We talked about: the strange reticence to change that emerges in organisations how family businesses are a bit weird but not as weird as PE-backed former family businesses the power of the Startup Priorities cards (a new digital edition coming soon) how the world financial … Continue reading 64th of 100
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