Being back in London for one week has been great.
Socially, we’ve met up with friends, gone out without the baby and been spoilt for choice for take away and nights out. The Bee’s made a friend and been invited to a baby group, so it’s been great to be back.
Professionally, I couldn’t be [...]
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Company character
Stick with me this post might be a bit longer than usual.
I’ve been hearing lot’s of people talk about how companies can be good or evil. A lot of this goes back to Google’s whole “Don’t be evil” line that was the unofficial motto around the company a while back. Part of it [...]
Making things happen in 2010
“Getting things done is not the same as making things happen.” – Gina Trapani page 68 in What Matters Now.
When you set the theme for your year as “learning to do”, you’re in for a long year. It was definitely a long year, but it was a good one. I managed to got [...]
Is design online being given too much credit?
Okay, first and foremost I think good design is important, very important, I just want to start a dialogue here.
Earlier this week I came across this post from Andrew Michael Baron, talking about how Twitter “could lose the game by design” and then today I came across this delightful rant on Metlabdesign about Zappos’ design [...]
Going with your gut versus going with the numbers
I was doing some pro bono work for an entrepreneur a couple of months ago, the company is a University spin out and has some great technology, I was helping him figure out how to apply the technology. He was really interested in going one way, a way in which he saw himself and [...]
Ownership and experience
I was having a conversation with some co-workers about business models and the like when we came onto the topic of Spotify. I’m a big, big, huge, big fan of Spotify. Think it’s a great service. And if Apple ever allows their iPhone app to go onto the app store I’ll probably [...]
Going places
Karim Kanji asked me to write a blog post about, well in his words via twitter “I was thinking abt various places u’ve worked (cities) & the great things abt them for u?” for his blog. It’s a topic I’ve thought about, I wrote a bit of a critical post about Monocle magazine’s top [...]
When an acquisition can go right
I’m not always a big fan of acquisitions. Especially when the companies involved still have some growing to do, which is why I’m glad Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress and others have stayed independent while MySpace and others have been acquired. I think a lot of times acquisitions stop companies from being focused on what [...]
Working till later in life
The Economist had a report a couple of weeks ago on the impact of ageing populations on society’s ability to care for the aged, especially with slow growth and labour shortages. The article has got me thinking about retirement quite a bit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not planning my retirement per se, [...]
Good fast cheap, pick three redux
So a couple of things from the last post.
1 – I had a copy of Flip sitting on my bookshelf, and it has a chapter on Good, Fast, Cheap pick three. I must have read the chapter overview when I picked it up a month ago, reading it now and will add some more [...]