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One in 20 million 20 Aug 2013 | 11:21 pm
I am one in 20 million. I genuinely believe I am. Out of all of the people in the world, I would argue that I’m in the top 0.2% of people when it comes to Excel prowess. That equates to being one of ...
Losing my creative virginity 25 Jul 2013 | 02:18 am
On Friday 17 May, I made a conscious and important decision: to force myself to be more creative. You see, I haven’t been creative since leaving school. Yes, creativity comes in various forms. I coul...
Accessing our information: are we asking the right question? 26 Jun 2013 | 01:08 pm
The rather farcical Where’s Wally/Waldo–style arm’s-length manhunt that is underway to locate Edward Snowden is, perhaps intentionally, deflecting from the important topic of snooping. But I think peo...
Tying expenditure to income: emotional blackmail 23 Jun 2013 | 04:57 pm
The idea of government earmarking specific items of income for specific items of expenditure is, to me, preposterous. In the most recent example, George Osborne today confirmed that £10m per year from...
Why Macs aren’t for me 31 May 2013 | 01:21 am
In one of my recent client engagements, I’m surrounded by people with Apple Macs. Everyone’s on laptops, MacBook Airs outnumbering MacBook Pros about 2:1. There’s even the odd person running Windows o...
Apologies 12 May 2013 | 01:52 am
There’s a quality that doesn’t come out in CVs that with time I find more and more essential in the workplace. That quality is the ability and willingness to admit fault and apologise. I’m not sure w...
Backhanded compliments? The non-committal adjectives used to describe Maggie 10 Apr 2013 | 11:51 pm
Below is a selection of the delightful non-committal adjectives used to describe Margaret Thatcher in the period immediately following her death. David Cameron: an “extraordinary leader and an extra...
My aeroplane conundrum 4 Apr 2013 | 02:25 am
A good while back, I had an interesting discussion with my dad. (I’ve had interesting discussions with him since. But they are not the subject of this post.) I wondered why it is not significantly qu...
What hashtags are *really* for 29 Mar 2013 | 04:15 pm
I was pointed towards an article yesterday about the futility of hashtags. My view is that it misses the point. There are, in my mind, three purposes for hashtags: Bringing together thoughts on a si...
Boris Johnson: disbelief 26 Mar 2013 | 02:33 am
I met Boris Johnson once. Indeed, I presented to him. It was 1998, if I remember. I was in my mid-twenties. We’d undertaken a survey of the Spectator magazine’s readership base. And I had analysed th...
