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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 t...
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 demand...
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 togeth...
Three thoughts on April 14.
I probably could have had a better, more clicky title. Can the crowd save the world? My wife and I had a BBQ today. It started out as my idea and it worked beautifully, the end, it was 'our' BBQ - eve...
10 Days into #LinkyBrains and this is what i's about for me.
10 mad days It has been the maddest 10 days of my life and I've had plenty mad. Time to reflect on this LinkyBrain thing - taking in all the feedback that's rolling in from chats, blog posts and spo...
I have a confession. I'm a #Linkybrain
The world became much less lonely for me two weeks ago. I was quietly minding my own business, doing what I always do - dream and deliver. Then I read something that connected with feelings I had buri...
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 they might seem ...
March's 30 Day Challenge: 2 minutes of high knees + 3 minutes of push ups!
5 Minutes seems the right amount of time To get to a very nice sweat - with the right exercises of course. The 30 Day Plank Challenge was phenomenal! My back, legs and core feel so much more reliable...
My 15 Year List of Ideas is a Ready Made Company Selector
For the last 15 years I've maintained a list of ideas to build - things that both excite me and improve the world. I've kept it pruned, adding new ideas, removing those that no longer seem viable and ...
My first week of Helpful Conversations
Last week I started having Office Hours to have conversations with anyone who wanted the benefit of my experience in startups, tech and a few other things from my 25+ years in the software space. Us...