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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 - [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
In the last 20 years of delivery I've lost count of the number of times I've heard "No, we don't need to test that, it's just a minor bug", followed closely by the familiar wail of Operational fire engines pulling up to a disaster. It's all too easy to panic and cut corners when a [...]
The room erupted in laughter when my colleague accidentally had a double typo in a sprint meeting and wrote “twat” instead of “test”… “I blame the ergonomic keyboard”, was her response. At least the team were paying attention to what she was writing and not mindlessly looking at Instagram on their phones. Worryingly though, none [...]
The tech ops guys were banging on about CloudFlare again, and I had no idea why. Did Cloudflare sponsor them? Surely it couldn't be that good, right? And anyway it would be super technical and a little bit out of reach for a mere Product Manager? While hurrying to the rain-swept car park after work, I [...]
Frustration increased as my colleague prodded her greasy index finger on my Macbook Pro’s screen and tried to swipe the web page we were looking at to the right. “It’s not a touchscreen”, I pointed out. The look of surprise and bewilderment which crossed her face made a couple of neurons fire in my agitated [...]
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