Mike’s theory of arcs and angles
mhsutton 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…
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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…
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…
No one is unstoppable forever.
Looking at the current landscape of tech giants, from Facebook to Google, from Stripe to Intel, it is almost impossible to imagine they can ever be out-spent or out-competed.- Whilst…
Downtime in the Age of Cloud Computing
We are working on an experimental mobile based social photography app called Snaptime and we have an ambitious plan to have it on the various app stores by the 1st…
My Web Summit 2015 Experience – the really short version.
TL;DR Web Summit was a major experience. There were a lot of people – the organisers claim 42,000 people were in attendance – and it felt it. If you aren’t…
Are Netflix and other interval collapsing platforms dangerous to your mental health?
I just watched the entire Daredevil season 1 on Netflix in 3 days. Prior to that I watched the entire Arrow series in 4 days. And Agents of Shield? I…
Read this before 'you eat your own dog food'
It has always amused me when people – usually men – say their company or team ‘eats their own dog food’. It has always struck me as a very ‘macho’…
#Startups, do you have a solution looking for a problem?
I’m having a wonderful time being helpful on SoHelpful.me. So many different people – with amazing stories – reaching out to and trusting a complete stranger to help them via…
My conclusions from doing 30 days of free remote organisation coaching
In December, I made this offer and invited help to learn how it might work. I got 11 responses and chose 3 organisations to work with. As the experiment evolved,…