At the end of the COVID lockdown, we took a drive to see family in Kent; Both my Brother and his family and Zoes Sister and her family live down there. It was a long drive down (7 hours driving with two breaks) and on the way home we decided Read more…
There are limited opportunities for adventure during covid. This adventure took place less than 2 miles from our house, and for the government mandated 1 hour. 😳 https://blantyreproject.com/2016/12/blantyreferme-anti-aircraft-battery/
Corona Lockdown 2020. We have been WFH for 3 weeks, Olivia is starting to get bored (she has completed netflix) I decided to put up the tent after reading about a guy walking the west highland way in his garden I grabbed my rucksack from under the stairs (where its Read more…
At work we use myzone as an incentive to keep people fit – we have challenges each month to see who can do the most :) Ive used Huel in the past, but the white version has lots of carbs – the black version is higher in protein and lower Read more…
We went to Edinburgh and had a look round the xmas market – we stayed at the Premier inn, in Leith (thanks Jane) The christmas market was very busy, and it rained (it always seems to rain in Edinburgh) but we had mulled wine and mulled cider, a german sausage Read more…
I picked up a (very) cheap umidigi smart watch from amazon It has a ton of features, but isnt androidwear, so its a bit limited That said, it has heart rate measurement, weather, step counter, sleep counter, it can alert you to facebook and whatsapp messages (and you can read Read more…
use domain driven design (common in microservice architectires)use DRYexisting code exerts a powerful influence! people try to copy the existing code – it backs you into a corner.write tests. always.refactor. always.refactor tests too. think of tests as i/o something in, something else out.
make users feel smart, not stupidfreeagent – bought over by RBSThey are a tech company, so have a strong engineering team1. Hiring is #1the hiring process needs to be good – there is a huge portion needed o be dedicated (eg 50%)Glassdoor is watching you.progression.fyiannual salary reviewshave clear progression pathways Read more…
in skateboarding its about competing with yourself (personal development)
people though ‘only girls have this’ and lots of people though it wasnt even a thing. everyone stood up when asked of they had experienced what was on screen Don’t believe everything you think. your self talk is killing you! write a list of all the negatives then write the Read more…
Jonny Brooks-Bartlett – Data Scientist at deliveroo They use predictive modelling and machine learning. Their hypothesis is “if they can show you more relevant places you will spend money” given a list of restaurants, can they rank them optimally how do they quantify that? how do you turn that into Read more…
seaker from spotify. does your product need repositioned? understand how you want people to think about you in the marketplace positioning isnt something you make up, its something that you find by looking where you are – by analysing inputs channel integrations are massive for spotify plus dont have a Read more…
by jonoalderson Everything is changing, except peoples businesses.
talk by split experimentleaks.com use data to drive the decisions. A/B testing, multivariant – controlled experiments reduce external influences. it can allow us to distinguish from noise and real signal. measure ‘statistically significant’ detecting something meaningful. errors: false positives + false negatives design like you are right, test like you Read more…
all about marketing automation, audiences, ad formats, programmatic creative content, client/consumer intent what things not to do :D Programattic is all about generating the content automatically based on the data available, automaticaly. split each ad into components an vary them, sort of like a/b testing but for ads automatically
This is a quick chat from David Irvine, CEO of MadeSafe The world forces us to change. Private and public info is everywhere now. It was fine, till the companies started to map the data and use it to craft their algorithms. Server based infrastructure is the easiest way that Read more…
Im listening to a great talk about culture inside a company – aira.net defining culture: you have to address the culture and define what you want it to be, it wont happen organically. you have to have a strong feedback culture to have a good culture you need to make Read more…
Today Im in Edinburgh, at TuringFest 2019It took an age to find a space to park, so I missed the first and most of the second talks – I managed to grab 10 mins at the end of a talk to get me started
We drove from Monkton Farleigh to Bath and had breakfast in the retro cafe. We then drove from Bath to Liverpool. We stayed at the Park Hotel in Aintree – we got a train from Aintree to Moorfields and went to Viva Brasil
We drove from Tumbridge Wells to Bath. We got stuck in traffic on the M25 for 40 mins. We stayed the night at the Kings Arms in Monkton Farleigh, 5 miles outside Bath
After driving down the motorway from Glasgow, we stayed at my brothers in Strood After 3 days in strood we drove down to Tunbridge where we will be staying at Zoes sisters for the next couple of days
