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Professionalism and the extra mile

• November 21, 2020

We had been planning to have a large garden summerhouse built for a number of months and we were finally in a position to do so. After a lot of research we decided to engage a local company as we liked the style of building they produced and the price was also competitive.

Openness, discussions and success

• November 15, 2020

I work very closely with two colleagues - and have done so for a number of years. Together we have experienced some serious ups and downs in the company we work for and also personally. We have each reached a point where we were close to leaving; we have each had something happen in our lives where the others have supported us.

AI breaks the game of hide and seek

• November 12, 2020

This is a really fun video where an AI is given a version of the game of hide and seek and each team has to learn ways to win - either by finding the other team or by not being found.

The growing power of influencers

• November 10, 2020

Quite often I will come across long articles and either put off reading them or just skim through their content. This article is well worth taking the time to read as it completely changed my views on where the media industry is heading. My notes here do not do it justice but will hopefully give you enough to encourage you to read it in full.

The loosely held product roadmap

• November 8, 2020

In a recent article by Ryan Singer, Options, Not Roadmaps, he explains why he doesn’t use roadmaps - he uses options instead.

New ways to generate ideas online

• November 6, 2020

There are a lot of sites that claim to be idea generators. Most of them turn out to be just a button you click that slings together a bunch of random words that are meant to then become a prompt to generate ideas.

Questions to ask yourself before you buy

• November 4, 2020

Sometimes it is very easy to buy things just for the sake of it. We get that rush when either we bring the item home or it is delivered. It is easy to form an addiction to that feeling.

Exposing the beauty in a problem

• November 3, 2020

I was recently reminded of this great quote:

“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

Fractional talent as an alternative pool of resources

• November 2, 2020

At the startup I work for we used to have a full time HR person. These were in the days when the expectation was that we would have explosive growth and the company would “at least double in size every few months”. Unfortunately that is not the way it played out - we are still making good progress but have much more realistic growth plans.

Committing time to stand out from the crowd

• October 31, 2020

There is a famous quote that asks how you eat an elephant and the answer is one bite at a time. It can be very daunting when attempting something new especially if it is potentially a large task. However it is impossible if you don’t take the first step.