People often say, “Come on, it is not rocket science.” The irony is that the first person who really explained context switching to me actually was a rocket scientist. His name was Andy Mather, a developer I worked with at Rippleffect. It started as a casual chat about processors and how they seem to [...]
Building with Purpose: How I Helped LGF Refocus Their Website to Better Serve Their Manchester Community The Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF), based on Manchester’s historic Canal Street, is a charity focused on supporting the LGBTQ+ community through health, education, advocacy, and inclusion. Their website was a key part of how they engaged [...]
Why Great Leaders Don’t Mistake Silence for Agreement Have you ever been in a meeting where everyone nodded along, even though the answer was obviously wrong? It is not laziness or lack of intelligence. It is a well-documented psychological effect called conformity bias. In the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch proved this in a [...]
What I Learned (and Fried) While Trying to Control a Motor with a Raspberry Pi If you bought a Raspberry Pi and it’s been gathering dust, shame on you. And if you bought it with the noble intention of introducing your kids to computing and it’s now stuffed in a drawer beside [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 - [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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