Back from a lovely weekend of multiple barbecues at Amanda Flood’s (amazing) new place in Norfolk and my own back garden. Schweet.
Archive for April, 2007
So a note by Jonny with a sensible question (which I paraphrase as “why don’t we celebrate people who make a lot of money after having done socially aware work, as well as the other way round”) leads me to a site, Careershifters, which I am fairly sure is run by an ex-consultant from IBM who I met at Shell back in my CVA/Adweb days.
Which got me thinking about connections and work and people, especially as the old Connaught Court team is reuniting this weekend in a Wettzlegion (our new and slightly arch version of Twiglet Zone, FYI).
Lots of lovely consulting style slides here. Read and digest and use. I’m sure I’ve blogged it before, but couldn’t find the link.
Still not sure about Fairtrade, but buying Green and Blacks is certainly out of the question now: a) sold out to Cadbury’s, b) non-Fairtrade, c) I instinctively dislike the CEO.
How to make the most of flip charts. We do a lot of this, especially post-it notes on a larger piece of paper (often called “brown paper” in consulting circles).
Dom has a meeting with Neil Bush, Dubya’s “embarrasing” brother. More reports when we have them.
We use friends and family to recruit staff as often as possible–it certainly keeps costs down for a small company. We’re not quite YouTube, yet.
Looking forward to working our way through the list of best restaurants in the world. Is it a bad thing that we’re starting at the top of the list later in the year? And I hadn’t even heard of Mugaritz even though we are less than a month back from San Sebastian! [Probably because it is out of town].
This man is just odd. In a strangely appealing way.
A cracking Waz moment: business analysis firm suggests you need to buy more business analysis. Genius. And nice to have you back, Mr Watson.
I guess it makes sense to fill the fridge and freezer as full as possible - cold liquid in containers escapes far less easily than air, so that you use less freezer cooling when you open the door.
Anto sends over a goody. You’d be absolutely terrified if you saw this coming, no? And I had my big waves dream this morning - haven’t noticed that for many, many years. I blame beers outside the House of Commons.
I hate sites that make it hard to see how much they cost, especially if they are subscription sites. Which is one of those. For the record, it is currently £7.75 per month.
Wired article with lots of fun playing with the five senses.
Nice idea to map out proportions in your life, but horrible in practice. Just imagine what yours would look like!
Interesting discussion on whether you motivate people more with bonuses or raises.
Horsesmouth looks like an interesting idea for community assistance and learning. I’m not sure why you wouldn’t use one of the others (LinkedIn, Facebook) instead or as well?
Looks like a Linux Treo is the beast I’ll be wanting (especially given how well Rockbox is working on my iRiver). I should keep the existing Treo for a while, then, even though the zero key has broken. Makes dialling phone numbers very entertaining, as well as the default bluetooth pass key.
I’m a great fan of House. Now I can see if the medicine makes sense, too.
Saul links to a nice property search Google mash up. How in heaven can a four bed house two roads up be going for £1.6m. Don’t believe it. My how I’ll laugh in five years time.
