New Manager: What are the first activities you should do?

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…

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…

Fellow Followers

Reading time: < 1 min A couple of days ago I Twittered the following “Twitter-verse – recommendations for a Photo Poster service (ie, send them a JPG, they send back a large format ‘poster’ of said photo)“, to which Lyle responded “@gordon : Photobox, although it does depend on the size of print“. Last night I browsed to the Photobox…