This week I have learned:
how resistant most of us are to admitting we are getting older. I’m probably as guilty as anyone. It’s fine. And life is probably better if one can be open to the idea.
how much fun it is to go from idea to a manifestation of an idea in super-quick time. I’ve got a new idea for a podcast which I hatched last weekend, and did the first recording for yesterday. I think the idea works.
from conversations with recruiters (1): people are only going to market for tech development where they are absolutely at the point where they have no choice but to do something.
from conversations with recruiters (2): the big consultancies (and possibly the small ones too) have a lot of people sitting on the bench at the moment.
from conversations with recruiters (3): it’s as hard a market as most people have ever seen.
from conversations with recruiters (4): people appear to be waiting for something to happen. That something might be a general election.
it’s better to be bold and to be the wrong option than to be timid and try to fit yourself to be the asked-for option.
I’m particularly intrigued by the idea of how user experience is partly shaped by what a user expects the experience is. It’s how 5 50-something men found themselves boiling water on a stove top a couple of weekends ago because we couldn’t find a kettle and the boiling water tap was too subtly disguised.
London on a Friday in a school holiday is eerily quiet. I quite like it.
Next week: testing the podcast hypothesis.
The week in photos: