Let me start by saying, whilst I have a keen eye for what is fair, I am not a lawyer. That said, I feel like I have a very good sense of what is 'legal' and also what is outside my area of expertise for knowing if it…
I've often found that when dealing with both people and data, the meta-data is more useful, more revealing and more interesting than the data, or the person themselves. This is not an absolute law of people and data but when I orient my approach to thinking about the…
Me: "How many visits does your website get a month?" Them: "Around 100,000 visits." Me: "How are you measuring that, client site analytics or server side?" Them: "Client side... Google Analytics.. why does it matter?" Me: "40% of people have…
Let me start by saying this is not a mean-spirited post, I have no ill feeling towards Meta nor the wonderful software developers than doubtless poured their hearts into the product. I have no skin the game, I am simply a user. This is an exercise in prognostication (the action…
Sometimes it's worth sharing something just because you appreciate it's beauty. The poem below was written by John Clare whilst committed to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum in 1841, prior to this Clare claimed "I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly." and he walked some 80…
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson, 2003 As I walked into WHSmiths and bought the 2023 copy last week, I realised I had been reading the magazine 'Wired', and its special edition 'The Wired world in 2022&…
I recently bought the book 'Creativity - a short cheerful guide' by John Cleese when I saw it in a local bookshop. I've always had a great interest in the creative process, I remember reading 'How to be creative' by Hugh MacCleod (later renamed…
Imagine I told you that you can change your life for the better and in order to do that you have to not do something. That's right you have to not do something. It feels to me as if the pressure (the often subtle pressure, to do more…
