Month February 2009
Rip it up
Reading time: 2 mins There is a part of me that is destructive. A part of me that says fuck you to all and sundry. A part of me that questions and challenges everything. That part of me hides in the shadows waiting for the moment to reveal itself, to rise up and strike down upon thee with great…
New Manager: How do you get better management buy-in?
Reading time: 3 mins I recently received an email which asked: Since my career seems to be following a path broadly similar to yours … I’d love to know what your experience was and any lessons learned. Specifically Mark, who sent the email, asked a few questions: How do you take over as manager for a group of technical…
Facebooked
Reading time: 3 mins I’ve still to find any good reason to visit Facebook more than once a month. It’s just never really grabbed me, largely because I have plenty of other places online where I can interact and all of them are far more subtle than the constant barrage of utter nonsense that the bulk of Facebook seems…
Change of frame
Reading time: < 1 min I spent a fair portion of yesterday wandering around Glasgow taking photos. Some were in a touristy kind of way but others were directly influenced by a conversation I had with someone. I had been talking about ‘finding’ shots to take, and she said that what she did was figure out the type of images…