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Make it Digital
“Let’s make it digital! It would be so much more efficient.” Before doing that, let’s think about who we are excluding by making it digital – and how. In my experience digital services are usually skewed towards the needs of the provider, rather than those who depend on the service. This Thinkery was captured live…
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We don’t know what we don’t know
When we think about how to solve a problem we can only really use what we’ve come across before. We don’t know what we don’t know. That’s why it’s useful to be exposed to all sorts of different potential solutions and to ask yourself what can I use that for? This Thinkery was captured live…
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What can you make from a box of wheat pops?
What can’t you make from a box of wheat pops? When you’re trying to solve the problem with technology there’s always a big temptation to start from scratch and build something completely bespoke, but it’s almost always the wrong approach. Better off thinking about what already exists and how it can be reused… This Thinkery…
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Be more Bob…
It’s only in my later years that I’ve gone deep with Bob Dylan – in particular the early stuff, Blood on the Tracks, Desire, The Times They are A-Changin’… It seems to me that the stuff Dylan was calling out then is still so relevant now. I recently tripped over this interview that he gave…
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The Unsharpener
I asked my son to draw me what he wanted for Christmas. Here are the suggestions I got back.
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Achilles Heel to Superpower
The thing I considered my achilles heel growing up, the enemy that was always in view, I now realise as having given me my superpower. I’m even grateful for it.
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Digital Transformation
For the last few months, our co-operative We Are Open has been helping a number of organisations with digital transformation in a time of crisis. You can read more about the work we’ve done with Action West London as they respond to their charity’s new circumstances.
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Skills for the New Normal
I know, I know – a million Zoom meetings draining the marrow out of life, right? Anyway, here’s a free & open email course crafted by the We Are Open Co-op to teach you things you already know (or do you?) about successful online video meetings: 7 Habits of Highly Successful Virtual Meetings
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Marmalabels
My eldest son is at it again. This time it’s funky labels for his mother’s freshly made Orange Marmalade. We keep this stuff in our cellar, so when we send one of the minions down for another jar (height restrictions mean it’s a yogic experience for the taller man…) there’s a collective marvelling at the…
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Pax Calendar
“Suddenly liberated by this new knowledge of old patterns, an unmissable opportunity presented itself to change the world forever. For surely, only a 9-year-old in Lockdown has the keen sense of awareness to set in store a brave new order of time itself. Having an appreciation of patterns and order, my young apprentice immediately adopted…
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Rabbit Hole Learning
“As it turns out, the answer is not that simple. You see, Sir Professor Isaac of Newton was so clever, he was born in BOTH 1642 and 1643…” Taken from the current issue of the Visual Thinker. You can subscribe here.
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A Fool Moon Photo
Like a fool, I was up late the other night taking a photo of the moon with an old DSLR camera with a big lens. I was poised with a tripod on the very edge of a spikey bush as the moon finally shifted itself between the trees, and the clouds kept a bay long…
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This is a blog of openly licensed thinkery. They are doodles, thoughts and ideas of Bryan Mathers – little curious tidbits which have emerged from juicy conversations. Also, this is a dumping ground for abandoned artwork. But one man’s dump is another’s treasure trove – amirite?
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