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I’m going for another walk.
As you might know – I like to walk. So on the 10th of September I’ll be heading to Santander in beautiful Cantabria, Spain to complete the walk I started in June 2016. The Camino Del Norte starts at Irun and ends in Santiago de Compostela. It runs for about 850 km with 32 stages. […]
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On Suicide.
Might helping people who consider suicide, to feel less trapped and more in control, be helpful to managing suicidal thoughts?
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Say your wishes out loud.
In Spain, we call New Year’s Eve night – ‘noche vieja’, and as the night ebbs away, leaving seconds left of the year that was – you are meant to ‘quickly’ eat a grape for every second of the last 12 seconds of the year – making a wish for the new year with each […]
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There is no ‘We the people’
There is a time between waking and rising. I find that time to be particularly full of insights and reflections. Today – I have been pondering this ‘we, the people’ concept that is often used to justify election outcomes. Democracy has become a popularity contest. I say ‘has become’ because I assume it wasn’t meant […]
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Mike’s theory of arcs and angles
One goal, which path would you take? Imagine you had a goal – perhaps to lose weight or to learn a skill, or even to build some capacity/capability as a person, team, company or country. Lets call that goal ‘B’ and your starting point – now – is ‘A’. The sharp angle path Now imagine […]
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I have people
I have people who instantly make me smile. Others who, as the interactions proceed, get me really irritated. I have people who help me slow down and think deeply, questioning with respect and letting my spaghetti brain uncurl. I have people who inspire with their very existence. Then I have people who make me laugh […]
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I'm loving: PomodoneApp
I’m terrible at focusing and single-flow discipline, so I tend to practice the Pomodoro technique – which is about enforced habit of working for short, concentrated bursts, taking a short breaks and longer breaks after a number of work bursts. I love not being focused and everywhere – I get to be curious and explore, finding […]
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I Want to Help One Billion People Prioritise Their Happiness
A very bizarre set of events led me to discover Mo Gawdat and his movement onebillionhappy. This highly inspiring man who could, by all accounts, be sitting in his wealth, isolated from everything that is going on in the world, is instead on an audacious mission to help ONE BILLION people figure out and focus […]
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Bullies and Bluebells
I was recently in a dialogue with a client and the conversation turned to “Evil Scrum” and some previous negative experiences that some people had experienced. They imposed velocity targets and demanded estimates a year in advance and then bashed people when those forecasts weren’t met Now, I’m no big fan of Scrum or Kanban […]
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Lessons from a #LinkyBrains event no one else came to
The LinkyBrains movement is purely accidental. It has gained and is gaining momentum primarily through small groups of people meeting to have coffee, some lunch or just a walk. What brings them together is the idea of different mindsets, curiosity, meeting kindred spirits – whatever. These ‘coffees’ are shabby-chic. There is often no structure, no […]