Silence

When you’re recording a podcast, an effective awkward silence is between one and five seconds. I’m away for a couple of weeks now and hoping the effective awkward silence between blog posts is a couple of weeks. See you on the other side.

What makes a good blog post?

“When you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that makes it good or bad.” Miles Davis If there is such a thing as a good blog post, a good learning experience, a good podcast or a good meeting, whether it’s good or bad is relative. You’re only as good as the last thing… Read More What makes a good blog post?

999

999 is the emergency number for the UK. It’s also the number of this blog posts on my blog – some 999 blog posts have, over a dozen years or so, been written, edited, and published. It feels like it’s important somehow. I don’t quite know why though. Tomorrow we enter a new millennium of… Read More 999

Pictures

Pictures paint a thousand words which is why I choose images to go on my blog posts on my website. When I copy those posts to LinkedIn I never bother with the images yet the posts on LinkedIn get read many more times. Do images really matter if it’s a short piece of content?

Twice a year

About twice a year I make a mistake when I’m posting blogs. The last one was in July 2021 – until yesterday that is. It wasn’t a fatal error, didn’t cause any big problems but was a simple scheduling error. In terms of impact it meant people might have received 2 emails with the blog… Read More Twice a year