A personal post today. I’m participating in the Prostate Cancer UK Run the Month campaign for October. Their ask is that I run a50 miles in October. Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK, killing one man every 45 minutes. That’s one dad, partner, brother, son, grandad, uncle or mate.… Read More Run the month
I have the most frustrating can opener in the world. It’s a top of the can design that you place over the rim, pull the handles together, and then turn a rotor on top. If I hold it closed with my left hand and turn with my right, it doesn’t work well. Hold it with… Read More Can/can’t open
I saw a story last week that said online learning can be ‘cool’. A read through of the story, and I saw the term was being used unironically to promote learning to adults. The content of the story was good – it had great examples of good learning practice but was being promoted under a… Read More How do you do fellow kids?
I wrote on Tuesday about how good ideas age. On the same day, Seth Godin published a post that good ideas feel early. Both sides of the same coin, both right, both limiting. More interesting is the lucky coincidence can be considered by two people on opposite sides of the planet and publish them the… Read More What are the chances?
I saw this quote the other day in an article about hybrid working: “One thing I really liked was we didn’t get very rule-specific about it. I think it helps increase our trust-based culture because it’s not about where we do the work, it’s about the work that we do.” Mark Nolan – MSD My… Read More Trust, culture and the hybrid worker
Lost and Desperate 