Category: thoughts
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10 years of invading inboxes
Turns out yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of the first email I sent as part of my newsletter – when it actually became a newsletter. I had remembered it earlier but turns out I sat on my Tinyletter account for a few weeks before hitting send. I remember I was nervous. There is something…
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A career A-Z
For reasons that are absolutely not important I decided to see if I could do an entire alphabet of employers since I turned 18 (back in the dark ages). I’ve tried not to cheat too much – I was either a PAYE employee or consultant/contractor for at least a month on all of them (except…
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By the book!
I’m doing a bit of a dive into the world of ‘digital’ playbook / handbook / toolkit / manuals – YMMV. What I am interested in are collections of (web) pages that outline the local expectations of their multi-disciplinary digital teams. How are they set-up, how do they operate, how are they assured…what does good…
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Team trends nostalgia
All my recent thinking about the shapes of teams in the AI era has got me all up in my feelings about the shape of things over the 25 plus years I’ve been doing this. These were some of my favourites; The Webmaster era – just me, a copy of Notepad.exe, Filezilla and a ‘HTML…
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AI era teams as a sports metaphor – Sevens vs XVs
I’m still thinking about what AI era teams look like. The metaphor I’ve been pondering is that these new team shapes will compare to the classic DDaT/GDaD ‘two pizza team’ in the same way that Sevens does with Rugby Union. This might be influenced by the fact it is the opening weekend of the Nations…
