Last weekend I joined the global series of Home Assistant Community Day meetups. Hosted locally here in Surrey, UK (thank you to Ian Gibbs for organising), the meetup brought together like-minded enthusiasts to share ideas, solutions, and stories of success and failure in the home automation space. As I sat there listening to people discuss the challenges and successes of their… Read more →
Category: Thinking
Correlation is not causality – but there are effects
This video triggered a few thoughts and even a smile, beyond the immediate concerns over safety! This week, you’ll do something, and something will happen; you’ll connect the two. The link seems solid, but that link may not exist at all. The phrase “correlation is not causality” is overused, especially by those newer to data science and statistics. Yes, just… Read more →
Shedding at Login Lounge
Last week saw the inaugural TED shed at Login Business Lounge , thanks to Steve Coburn. It was a chance to listen to some stimulating talks and discuss them, and I had the privilege of leading a table and feeding back. Steve asked us to consider what harms own industry had been responsible for in the pursuit of growth. As… Read more →
Growing in a circle
There’s a sign, a little artisan placard, on a wall at my parent’s house. I’m not sure where it came from, or even when it appeared. It is ornate, but it has just three simple words on it: ‘seed’, ‘feed’, ‘weed’. I noted it, because it echoes the approaches I’ve been taught for developing products, growing businesses, and even life… Read more →
A Week on The Interwebs – 8th March
For what seems like an age I have planned to restart blogging the useful things I have found or learnt during the week. Partly as a resource and reference for myself, and partly as a way of curating the web – Google determines what is useful partly by what is linked to, and what Google determines is useful is, largely,… Read more →
CauseWired – A Decade On
In November 2008 I read a book called CauseWired by Tom Watson. NB This Tom Watson isn’t the Labour Party Deputy leader (here), he’s this one, the US journalist and critic. I wrote: If you look at my copy of CauseWired, you’ll see that I’ve marked more than one or two pages out, and if you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I’ve been… Read more →