Houses In Winchester

I went to Winchester last weekend to have a look around and came across this series of houses. Quite eye-catching, especially as the others were of the drab grey variety as seen on the right in the photo above. I was wondering if they all belonged to the same person and they decided on the

The GTD Merry-Go-Round

Amusing, honest and insightful post by Jack Baty on the perpetual rise and fall of ways of Getting Things Done (GTD) 🙂 It was nice to realise that I’m not alone in this! I usually manage to make things a bit more complicated by alternating between a wide variety different software packages for carrying out

What Business Aren’t You In?

See the discussion here. So is Thrifty car rental an insurance company that uses rental cars as the way to get business, or is it really a rental car that happens to also sell insurance for its cars? Great question, but an even better question to ask yourself if you are really clear about your

Open And Closed Thinking Modes

Interesting list of 55 quotes to ‘inspire creativity, innovation and action’. One that I’d not come across before was: “We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the

The Demise Of The Internet Generation?

Fascinating article in Der Spiegel on the relationship of young people to the internet, giving quite different viewpoints than you commonly come across in the media. Here’s the opening paragraph They may have been dubbed the “Internet generation,” but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the

Knowledge And The City

Following on attending a recent Knowledge Café at Arup, last Thursday I took part in a meeting with the London Information and Knowledge Exchange (LIKE). Usually their meetings are in a pub in Bloomsbury but on this occasion it was a 2 hour conducted tour of The City plus some eating/networking at the end (in

Banks And Patching Up Complexity

Interesting post today on banks, rules and principles by Robert Peston on his BBC blog, some extracts: It is therefore odd that the future of banking is being decided as it has been done for more than 35 years, behind closed doors in the quaint Swiss town of Basel by a committee of unelected central