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Is Loneliness the New Smoking
A New Look at What Really Keeps Us Alive Longer We all know the usual advice: eat well, exercise, don’t smoke. But what if your ability to dodge death has just as much to do with dinner table chats and Saturday phone calls as it does with protein shakes? A major new study, featured in The Economist, dives into [...]
A Trip To Prague
Wednesday 26th – Beavers, Penguins, and the Wrong Door We arrived in Prague and checked into the Kampa Gardens Hotel, which is technically on an island — a very exclusive-sounding detail until you realise it’s just over the bridge and sandwiched between the river and a quiet park. It’s also a two-minute walk from Charles Bridge, which is [...]
A Drive to Remember
A Drive to Remember: My TVR Adventure Across Europe If someone had told me a year ago, "Would you fancy burning through 900 litres of premium fuel over nearly 2,000 miles across Europe?" I’d have looked at them as if they'd grown a second head. Yet, here I am, recounting the very adventure that, at first glance, sounds utterly [...]
Security Security Security
Increase Your Online Security with this Article Covid compliance forced physical shops to close and accelerated the use of technology to make purchases and communicate. Increased tech use can mean users get lax with their password security and either re-use their passwords or create insecure passwords. Organisations such as Evil Corp (see resources below) exploit thousands of individuals [...]
Going Quantum
How to Use Amazons Quantum Computers If annealing, superposition, and qubits all sound like new Netflix films to you, then I too was in the same position only a week ago, until I fell down the rabbit hole of quantum computing. How is the Quantum Computer Setup in Amazon - The Amazon Braket Architecture? [...]
Digital Currency: The Next Fintech Challenge?
With the likes of Dorthy Perkins and Topshop on the brink of collapse, what can governments do to stimulate spending in the areas which need it the most? One country may have already found the solution. Having a considerable percentage of the population (800 million) already using cashless payments (annually breaching the $500 trillion threshold), and figureheads like Jack [...]
Raspberry Pi Hedgehog Camera
Raspberry Pi Hedgehog Camera Lockdown 1.0 was a golden opportunity to learn some new skills, move out of comfort zones and into new realms of personal projects. The Brief Set up a night vision camera in the garden to be able to ascertain if: The rescue hedgehogs were coming back; and If a cat [...]
Making Meetings More Manageable
"Never ask a question you didn't know the answer too". The first rule I was taught in advocacy at law school. Sometimes it can be one of the biggest allies in getting through meetings, a fact championed by my colleague Jamie Griffiths when we were delivering the incredible Enterprise Product, "Playmaker" at Reading Room. As a project lead, preparation is [...]
5 Tips for Setting up Remote Agile Teams
During the recent Maxwell Bond Webinar (kindly organised by Riana Butler) on "Agile Project Delivery" I sat as a panellist. There was an impressive turnout and some outstanding questions posed by the attendees. One of the queries revolved around any "gotchas" for setting up agile teams remotely. This piqued my interested as agile and remote working do capture the current [...]
