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Believing your own slogans
I’ve just finished reading ‘How Google Works’ by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. It is an interesting book and certainly gives an insightful of the way the senior echelons at Google operate. While it is hard to disagree with some of the brains behind one of the greatest success stories of the ‘internet era’ I…
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Meetup malaise
All photos courtesy of David Pearson https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidpea/sets/72157646722886933 So this week with considerable assistance from the main organisers in London and the very generous sponsorship of the Just Eat technical team in Bristol I helped put on a 300 Seconds event in Bristol. For those that don’t know 300 Seconds is; “..a series of talks by…
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The Numbers Game
Digpen & WebDevConf 2014 I gave similar version of this talk at DigPen in Plymouth and WebDevConf in Bristol in September/October 2014. Morning — hope you have had your coffee and are sufficiently fed and rested for the day. Over the course of the next several hours there will be loads of great talks where the speakers…
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Perpetual Pretentiousness Prejudice
I’ve been accused of reverse snobbery more than once in my life. I wonder if this a particularly British thing as I don’t know of many other places quite so obsessed with the ‘class system’. I had a pretty pathological distrust of anyone who attended public school and attendees of what I now know to…
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A ‘meh’ life crisis
As Adrian Mole might have said I am 41 and a half. This is, according to authoritative sources (well Wikipedia), about the time when a ‘mid life crisis’ might occur. I’m not sure if that is what I experiencing but I am certainly going through an introspective phase that had previously been pretty absent from…
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