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This week I have learned: a good break from everything over Christmas was well-needed. Caught up with family and friends...
10/01/2025

This week I have learned: a good break from everything over Christmas was well-needed. Caught up with family and friends. Cooked, ate, drank and was merry. But after two weeks it was also good to get back to work. it's been a productive week. A proposal for a new piece of of work, and getting some things in place to smooth work in flight....

This week I have learned: a good break from everything over Christmas was well-needed. Caught up with family and friends. Cooked, ate, drank and was merry. But after two weeks it was also good to g…

This week I have learned: there's been so much illness about for the last few weeks. I've felt various levels of crappy ...
13/12/2024

This week I have learned: there's been so much illness about for the last few weeks. I've felt various levels of crappy for the last fortnight, and many colleagues in many locations have had varying levels of illness over that period too. I can't remember an end of year where I've been looking forward to a break quite as much in ages....

This week I have learned: there’s been so much illness about for the last few weeks. I’ve felt various levels of crappy for the last fortnight, and many colleagues in many locations hav…

This year, as with most years, I've been busy on my Kindle. Here are some of my reading highlights from the past 12 mont...
13/12/2024

This year, as with most years, I've been busy on my Kindle. Here are some of my reading highlights from the past 12 months (books not necessarily from 2024, but purchased and read this year). Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History Otto English This is a great book, the retelling of the not-so-heroic life stories of some of popular culture's real-life heroes....

This year, as with most years, I’ve been busy on my Kindle. Here are some of my reading highlights from the past 12 months (books not necessarily from 2024, but purchased and read this year).…

I ran a workshop this week for colleagues from across our consulting organisation. I wanted to find a way to allow peopl...
06/12/2024

I ran a workshop this week for colleagues from across our consulting organisation. I wanted to find a way to allow people to explore an idea without being too constrained by their own views. I also wanted people to identify tangible actions that they could take away and do. The theme for this workshop was improving hybrid working, but I think the technique could be used for many different scenarios where you want people to come up with a wide range of actions....

I ran a workshop this week for colleagues from across our consulting organisation. I wanted to find a way to allow people to explore an idea without being too constrained by their own views. I also…

This week I have learned: a different interpretation of thinking about the future that resonated with me massively. Joha...
06/12/2024

This week I have learned: a different interpretation of thinking about the future that resonated with me massively. Johannes, this week's WB40 guest, talked about how thinking about the future is a hugely useful way to understand what you should do in the present. That chat was then the final piece of the puzzle when thinking about a workshop session I ran on Wednesday....

This week I have learned: a different interpretation of thinking about the future that resonated with me massively. Johannes, this week’s WB40 guest, talked about how thinking about the futur…

This week I have learned: after another successful circumnavigation of the sun, I feel about 64 rather than 54. I've got...
29/11/2024

This week I have learned: after another successful circumnavigation of the sun, I feel about 64 rather than 54. I've got a sore leg (the result of a "sporting" injury) and a head full of snot. I got to catch up with a former colleague who now works for the Football Association, whose offices are at Wembley Stadium. Behind the scenes it was fascinating, not least quite how many people work there even when there's nothing on, and also how (like in shopping centres and theatres) the front of house is terribly plush but no expense has been spent when it comes to behind the scenes....

This week I have learned: after another successful circumnavigation of the sun, I feel about 64 rather than 54. I’ve got a sore leg (the result of a “sporting” injury) and a head …

This week I have learned: You just know when things click. It's been a busy few weeks with keynotes and workshops and th...
15/11/2024

This week I have learned: You just know when things click. It's been a busy few weeks with keynotes and workshops and they all went pretty well. Lots of things that can be improved, but that's always the case. I've come back to Euan Semple's idea of Trojan Mice again. Smuggling things into organisations and sectors in ways that disguise them....

This week I have learned: You just know when things click. It’s been a busy few weeks with keynotes and workshops and they all went pretty well. Lots of things that can be improved, but that&…

This week I have learned: the joy I get from designing immersive, interactive sessions. Working with some colleagues in ...
11/10/2024

This week I have learned: the joy I get from designing immersive, interactive sessions. Working with some colleagues in our European business on an event for next month and it's the sort of work that feels like a happy place. But that might be the novelty. I'm probably putting too much into the Hacking Apophenia talk and workshop. Go big or go home as some people are prone to say....

This week I have learned: the joy I get from designing immersive, interactive sessions. Working with some colleagues in our European business on an event for next month and it’s the sort of w…

I was going to have a meet-up to celebrate hitting the 700 milestone, but events, dear reader. Events. This week I have ...
04/10/2024

I was going to have a meet-up to celebrate hitting the 700 milestone, but events, dear reader. Events. This week I have learned: that I've hit 700 on the weeknote totaliser. That's quite a big number. And I really don't think I would have thought I would have kept the habit up this long back 14 years ago when I started....

I was going to have a meet-up to celebrate hitting the 700 milestone, but events, dear reader. Events. This week I have learned: that I’ve hit 700 on the weeknote totaliser. That’s quit…

This post comes from a chance conversation I had last week with my esteemed colleague David Hamilton... For a software p...
30/09/2024

This post comes from a chance conversation I had last week with my esteemed colleague David Hamilton... For a software product to be successful, three things need to be in alignment - it needs to be: valuable usable sellable Plenty of otherwise great products (or great ideas that haven't actually translated into successful products) have gone nowhere as a result of them only hitting one or two of these facets....

This post comes from a chance conversation I had last week with my esteemed colleague David Hamilton… For a software product to be successful, three things need to be in alignment – it …

This week I have learned: in the past two weeks I've had 8 days at events of one sort or another. It's been great, but I...
28/09/2024

This week I have learned: in the past two weeks I've had 8 days at events of one sort or another. It's been great, but I'm exhausted from being sociable, travelling, and a few disturbed nights of sleep in hotel rooms in various locations. Note to self: don't schedule another fortnight like this if you can avoid it. email has gone the way of the fax, right?...

This week I have learned: in the past two weeks I’ve had 8 days at events of one sort or another. It’s been great, but I’m exhausted from being sociable, travelling, and a few dis…

This week I have learned: how nice it is to catch up with my podcast co-founder, Chris. We spent some great time togethe...
20/09/2024

This week I have learned: how nice it is to catch up with my podcast co-founder, Chris. We spent some great time together at the Richmond Events CDO Forum on Monday and Tuesday, and ran a podcasting workshop for delegates on Tuesday too. If you are looking for sh*ts and giggles, rock up to a very swanky "country" hotel on the outskirts of London on a pushbike....

This week I have learned: how nice it is to catch up with my podcast co-founder, Chris. We spent some great time together at the Richmond Events CDO Forum on Monday and Tuesday, and ran a podcastin…

This week I have learned: I always find this time of year a little maudlin. The kids are back at school, the summer is o...
06/09/2024

This week I have learned: I always find this time of year a little maudlin. The kids are back at school, the summer is over, the leaves are turning, and before we know it, we'll be into the birthday/Christmas season that dominates the Ballantine-Pescatore household for 8 weeks, and then another trip around the sun is completed. it's also been a relatively quiet week before a few weeks of many things novel - a couple of conferences, a run of internal in-person events in London topped with a day trip to Bournemouth for Silicon Beach Lite....

This week I have learned: I always find this time of year a little maudlin. The kids are back at school, the summer is over, the leaves are turning, and before we know it, we’ll be into the b…

The week in photos... Next week: back to reality
23/08/2024

The week in photos... Next week: back to reality

The week in photos… Next week: back to reality

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This week, I have learned: Some potential health challenges ahead for the older members of the clan. I'm continuing to w...
02/08/2024

This week, I have learned: Some potential health challenges ahead for the older members of the clan. I'm continuing to work through how confronting mortality is increasingly a part of daily life as you age. Reaching the first milestone of a clear content plan for the book project is satisfying. Undoubtedly, though, some actual writing needs to start soon. A colleague today made an interesting observation about Conway's Law: the nature of an organisation's…...

This week, I have learned: Some potential health challenges ahead for the older members of the clan. I’m continuing to work through how confronting mortality is increasingly a part of daily l…

This week I have learned: about products. The usability of a product isn't simply down to its design. It's also down to ...
28/03/2024

This week I have learned: about products. The usability of a product isn't simply down to its design. It's also down to the user's expectation of what that product is. So if I come to a car thinking it's a horse, I'll be disappointed, no matter how well-designed it is. It's all well and good "reconceptualising" a particular product category, but we know how to use the previous incarnations....

This week I have learned: about products. The usability of a product isn’t simply down to its design. It’s also down to the user’s expectation of what that product is. So if I com…

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