On Wednesday, I was part of a team that ran an evening workshop for our emerging executive community in Benelux. We had around 20 CxOs come together to connect, share ideas and build relationships. Our European business unit lead, Simon Bostock, asked me to help create a workshop that would allow people to engage, "work" … Continue reading Field notes: Humans v AI
This week I have learned: You just know when things click. It's been a busy few weeks with keynotes and workshops and they all went pretty well. Lots of things that can be improved, but that's always the case. I've come back to Euan Semple's idea of Trojan Mice again. Smuggling things into organisations and … Continue reading Weeknote 706: workshopping
This week I have learned: about the delight that is Manchester Tech Festival. A very different event to the usual male-dominated nonsense in the industry. A huge range of people, thinking and conversation. that the hard work is worth it. You can't avoid it. If you want to make an impact you do need to … Continue reading Weeknote 705: MTF
This week I have learned: that starting with a new client is a relief after a long period of thinking about how we might start working with a new client. Prep is important, but it's easy to over-extrapolate. I've had a week of pretty much not thinking about next week's presentation. It's embedded in the … Continue reading Weeknote 704: Starting
This week I have learned: I do enjoy the forming part of the process of team building. Getting everyone together, getting to know one another and getting clear about where we are heading. Jumping to conclusions can be dangerous. Chesterton's Fench idea of understanding why something exists as it does before trying to take it … Continue reading Weeknote 703: Forming
This week I have learned: some fascinating insights into the medium-term strategies for Meta. One thing that is starting to become clear is that from building LLMs to using off-the-shelf LLMs, we'll quickly be at the point where we'll simply enable the LLMs built into the products we use. If you're building an LLM for … Continue reading Weeknote 702: commodities
I'll be turning 54 next month. I know, I barely look a day over 52. In my brain, however, I'm still waiting for the morning I wake up and feel like a grown-up. But despite my increasing years and abandoned hairline, I can't really remember a time in my life when I wasn't surrounded by … Continue reading The 4Cs of Computing
This week I have learned: the joy I get from designing immersive, interactive sessions. Working with some colleagues in our European business on an event for next month and it's the sort of work that feels like a happy place. But that might be the novelty. I'm probably putting too much into the Hacking Apophenia … Continue reading Weeknote 701: in the wild
I was going to have a meet-up to celebrate hitting the 700 milestone, but events, dear reader. Events. This week I have learned: that I've hit 700 on the weeknote totaliser. That's quite a big number. And I really don't think I would have thought I would have kept the habit up this long back … Continue reading Weeknote 700: what a lot of weeknotes
This post comes from a chance conversation I had last week with my esteemed colleague David Hamilton... For a software product to be successful, three things need to be in alignment - it needs to be: valuable usable sellable Plenty of otherwise great products (or great ideas that haven't actually translated into successful products) have … Continue reading 3 facets of a successful product
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