Sep 5, 2020#ShedlifeThere’s a new post on the blog about my office shed, check it out: https://ames.world/posts/shedlife/Remote Working1 min readRemote Working1 min read
Aug 29, 2020Moving to https://ames.worldI’ve finally made the leap and moved my stuff to my own blog https://ames.world I’m leaving current content in medium too, but new stuff will be published over in the blog. Thanks ❤️1 min read1 min read
Published in Inspect and Adapt·May 5, 2020What would a great onboarding experience look like?When I joined Surevine my onboarding experience was fantastic, but I wanted to see if there was anything more we could do to make it even better, so back in June I asked twitter what would a great onboarding experience look like? As always the responses were great. …Recruitment4 min readRecruitment4 min read
Published in Inspect and Adapt·Oct 28, 2019Reflections on MapCamp 2019.This year I was finally able to attend MapCamp 2019 with ~600 other people at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London. MapCamp is a conference introducing and describing the technique of Wardley Mapping, a tool for mapping strategy. I first came across Wardley Maps a couple of years ago through the medium…Strategy14 min readStrategy14 min read
Published in Inspect and Adapt·Oct 16, 2019The 10 things I learnt from remote workingThis post was originally published on the surevine blog. 3 months ago, I took the next step in my career and joined Surevine as a Team Lead. There were many things that first attracted me to the company, but one major benefit was that it’s totally remote, and so learning…Remote Working6 min readRemote Working6 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Sep 1, 2019#100DaysOfRobotics — Day Three and Four.Day three and as expected life is disrupting the schedule. A work trip to London and DIY has meant falling a bit behind on writing up what I have learned, so this is a bumper edition! Variable Resistors. Variable resistors are also known as Potentiometers (or Pots for short) are as their…Electronics4 min readElectronics4 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Aug 27, 2019#100DaysOfRobotics — Day Two.So I left day one rather abruptly, with a resistor color chart and not a lot of explanation. This was for two reasons: I didn’t fully understand it. It was taking me almost as much time to write about what I had learned on day one than the time I…100 Day Challenge4 min read100 Day Challenge4 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Aug 26, 2019#100DaysOfRobotics — Day One.Summer 2019 is coming to a close and there are a mere 127 days left of the year. So I have decided to set myself a challenge. I’ve seen plenty of people doing #100DaysOfCode (and to be honest I probably should) but I wanted to pick a challenge that lets…Electronics4 min readElectronics4 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Aug 16, 2019Weeknotes. wb 16/08/19Weeknotes are always so hard to start when you’ve not done them for a while. So much has happened you don’t know where to start. Another case that small and often is better than large and infrequent. …Agile6 min readAgile6 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Jun 24, 2019Weeknotes wb 17/06/2019After feeling like I was getting on top of things last week, this week has been a bit of a reverse, it’s been our first full week sprinting at the same cadence as the client and there has been a fair bit of adjusting and ironing things out as a…Agile4 min readAgile4 min read
