The Great Resignation Web3 and the Metaverse Hybrid Working I’ll stop there because these are the headlines of the day around the world of work and the — potential — shifts in how things are. There’s something that ISN’T grabbing any headlines but I’m seeing it. A great disconnect. I…

I know it’s Saturday as I write this, and this might count as work. And some people might say “But you’re a 4-day working week?” but I just happen to like a lot of things in life that might LOOK like work. But they’re more about just being interested in…

Peacetime. Two words made into one. The first part is a hallowed state of harmony and the latter, denotes a sustained frame of a continuous cycle, an era. Both shattered with an aggressive invasion of a sovereign independent state in the second month of 2022. …

My dear Mum, God rest her soul, used to say to me “have you done all your work then?” This was 2019, and my answer was “I’m never finished”. See Mum was from the Industrial era Shoe Factory workforce so prevalent in 1960–1990s Northampton. …

People are more than the Pink Floyd proverbial “another brick in the wall”. We know this. We’re not replicants. We’re uniquely different even when we’re biological twins. Back in March 2021, it looked like we were coming out of the pandemic. Yeah, right. I wrote this post: WorkX. It didn’t…

2021 was a year of discovery. How governments disappoint yet continually govern. How businesses and work ignites and douses the human soul. How people show their extremes of togetherness and divisiveness. It’s been a year of paradoxes I guess. Well, polarities and paradoxes (not to be confused with one another)…

Wikipedia defines Kintsugi as <here> the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. When we say the word broken it feels tragic. Damaged forever. No longer functional and pointless. Loss, heartbreak and hurt. Much…

Venture Capital has become the fuel behind the innovation that is largely associated with digital technology from Silicon Valley, to Berlin, Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Shanghai. I recall reading the book “Sprints” by Jake Knapp and the approaches taken in Google Ventures. Looking at start-ups, seed-funding for new ideas and…

Wikipedia definitions REALLY help. What would we do without Wikipedia? I am a sometimes donor because my goodness it’s helpful. It’s also a superb example of a non-hierarchical entity — a heterarchy. Here’s (a slightly edited to remove biological references) what Wikipedia says about a heterarchy. A heterarchy is a…