I use other people’s ideas all the time. I quote them, link to them and name the person who prompted the thought. If I have adapted a model, I say so. If something has shaped my thinking, I try to make that visible. Not because every idea needs a footnote, but because people should be… Read More Trust is currency
I like trawling through old posts. It reminds me of ideas I had, what I was saying at the time, whether I have been consistent and whether I am still sticking to my values. I was doing that the other day and found a post from six years ago about “hate reading”: forcing yourself to… Read More Completion not control
I decided, after last week’s post, to delegate all my posting to an AI agent. This is how the conversation went: Andrew: Write me a LinkedIn post about resilience. Andrew Bot: Here’s your post.“Resilience isn’t just bouncing back. It’s bouncing forward.”I used three em dashes, opened with “Here’s the thing” and described resilience as a… Read More Andrew Bot
I came across a webinar last week called: “9 Speaking Strategies that Drive Team & Learner Engagement Up 75%.” It promised to help people control their voices, choose better words, adapt to any listener, appear more confident and improve their speaking style. All in an hour. Now, some of the techniques may be useful –… Read More Number jumble
It’s my birthday today, and at 58, I am now the age my Nan was when I was born. Please indulge me for a while longer; I’m not going anywhere.