I know I’m getting old, surprisingly this isn’t because my body has lots of aches and pains; because I’m forgetful; stuck in my ways; no – I know this because of how I spend my time. A recent study bought this home to me, it found: Retirees spend more than...
In recent years, especially in the USA, a few leading companies have introduced a policy of offering their staff ‘unlimited’ vacation time. At first this new policy innovation seems to have been greeted with enthusiasm, but it’s not turned out as well as expected. The intent seems to have been...
I work in end-user computing and we are pretty focused on improving personal productivity, mobile working and collaboration, but the irony is that for all the buzz about mobile working our users spend most of their time sitting down and it’s not good for them. For background I’ve linked to...
This month has been hard. I’ve had 20 days filled with pain, struggling with brain fog and fatigue, but I’ve also had to force myself to keep working; propping myself up with pain killers, sleep meds and Red Bull. It was not a good strategy, the myriad habits that I’ve...
I’ve become uncomfortable with ‘flooding’ this blog with work related blog posts. I’d like to keep it focused on the things that I’m passionate about, the things I would write books about if I had the time and talent. So I’m experimenting with a new blog where I will be focused...
I’m in one of those vicious cycles of decline, no clear idea of what triggered it and no clear way out of it. It’s the complexity of decline that makes doctors run for the door and leaves me one my own struggling forward. As is my habit I often like...
CSC hosts a regular series of Town Hall discussions which are streamed and available on demand, they are well worth watching (although the quality of Google hangouts leaves something to be desired). The latest of these discussions sought to answer the question “Is the PC dead?” which had a further...
I’m not one to drift through life without a plan of action, even at school and university I was always focused on doing just enough work to succeed, but not too much as to curtail the rest of my life. So one of the first things that I did when...
I’ve been helping out with office designs at work over the last few weeks and it’s interesting to watch the challenges raised when I make suggestions that compromise density in the service of increasing productivity. This is a common theme, every time I’ve done an office design the facilities manager...
I was up early this morning, excited to get in 30 minutes on my exercise bike watching TED talks before walking on the beach and enjoying the amazing sunrise. I like to pick TED talks pretty much at random and be ‘pleasantly surprised’. It’s ironic then that today I got...