In keeping with the spirit of a Thinkweek today was meant to start with a leisurely walking meeting, followed by lunch and an afternoon reading but as so often happens things didn’t quite go to plan. The day started as planned with an hour at Caffe Nero reading through my...
It’s now my habit to nominate one week a month as a ‘Thinkweek’ modelled loosely on Bill Gates scheduled research weeks of the same name, but more frequent. Having taken 12 Thinkweeks last year I’ve come to appreciate them greatly and they’ve delivered considerable benefits in the form of time...
20 years ago most people were employed and their employers provided the offices they worked in, the desks they sat at, the chairs they sat in, the tools they used and defined the times at which they worked. Employers controlled everything about the work experience, even for many people (task...
This morning I’ve been listening to the ‘Humans are not broken’ podcast, which makes the case that Humans bodies have evolved to work pretty flawlessly over millions of years, we are the product of millions of generations of ancestors every one of which lived until at least reproductive age. Hence...
Yesterday I listened to the fascinating Temple Grandin talking about how she ‘thinks in pictures’ on The TED Radio Hour she described how in a conversation or when thinking her mind constantly conjurers up a constant stream of images. These images are not random, the are specific images from her past that...
My first meeting of the day was a walking meeting with Gary around Astley Park. Walking meetings seem to have four advantages, Gary and I get to avoid the perils of sitting and get some exercise, Gary’s not constantly distracted by the stream of ‘important’ emails that constantly flood his inbox...
This morning started badly, I’m adjusting to some new pain killers and they are really knocking me out, making it very hard to wake up and clear my head well enough to meditate, but I struggled through and headed off to the Beach Terrace Cafe to do my morning reading....
This is my first post from the iPad using the word press applications, no wysiwyg formatting unfortunately, so I’m not sure what it will look like. Anyway here goes. The good — the hardware is wonderful, an excellent screen, very responsive Touch, amazing battery life, easy to clean (using a...
when I got a big screen for my home office I thought I would make most use of it sat at my desk, luxuriating in all that screen real estate. Whilst I do use it that way, what’s made most difference is that I can sit on my sofa with...
A colleague of mine recently asked me what my IT research interests are. It got me thinking; I am interested in lots of things, but only a few that I am prepared to put serious time and effort into. Here they are: Personal Knowledge Management Team communication, collaboration and co-ordination,...