Found This Week #1
I’ve decided to start sharing some of the best things I encounter each week, from the internet mostly but also from real life! Hopefully what I find interesting will also be interesting to you. This is the first instalment :-)
Photo of The Week
While covering the Munster V Edinburgh match (see Rugby Corner below), I had the pleasure of staying in the Quality Hotel in Youghal, Cork. The hotel sits right on the beach and you can walk out the door of the bar or look out the large windows of the leisure centre and stare at the ocean. The beach itself is a mixture of sand and stones and as a result, the ebb and flow of the waves produce a loud, soothing white noise caused by the movement of the stones in the water. It’s well worth checking out and Youghal town is lovely also. I took this photo outside the Quality Hotel Leisure Centre which overlooks the beach and Capel Island.
30 Days of Genius
If you haven’t heard of Chase Jarvis, he’s a world class sports photographer, entrepreneur & founder of Creative Live, an online training provider for the creative practices. They’ve just launched a new series of video interviews with 30 high profile successful people like Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, Arianna Huffington etc. These are well worth a watch.
CyberDust
An app mentioned during the Mark Cuban 30 Days of Genius interview is CyberDust. It is a secure private messaging app that deletes the messages after 24 hours on the device and in the server. All data in the cloud is stored in RAM and never persisted to a hard drive. Mark Cuban discusses how the main reason for creating the app is to enable sensitive business conversations to happen in a secure environment. It also has a nice RSS feed reader built in.
1.6 Million People Are Learning Irish on Duolingo
During an excellent interview with Luis von Ahn on the Tim Ferriss Show, the founder of Duolingo described how there are approx. 94,000 native Irish speakers but that over a million people are currently learning Irish on duolingo. Apparently there’s also a spike in numbers around a certain event in March :-)
Philosophy Tube
An interesting youtube channel that serves up bite-size videos about philosophy topics. Perfect for philosophy nubes (me).
Wisdom of the Week
A manager must always drive.
It’s easy to take whatever you are working on and put it on cruise control. Things are going accordingly to plan, the team member has it under control, the ball is in the supplier’s court or I’m waiting for that person to get back to me on that issue. The temptation is to fire and forget the task until it becomes a priority. Doing this however means that inevitably, the next time you need to address the issue is when it is a problem. The team member missed a deadline, the supplier is nowhere to be seen, you haven’t received a response to that issue or something was missed in the plan and now the project is in trouble. Always review, always do catch-ups, always do follow-ups and always drive.
Rugby Corner
As some of you may know, I’m on the panel of photographers for the Munster Rugby Supporters club. I was lucky enough to cover the match in Irish Independent Park last Friday night against Edinburgh. Anyone following Munster Rugby will know that this season has been bad, really bad. Last Friday night however was a beacon of hope in our journey towards European Champions Cup qualification. A strong first half and some well defined extra effort at the end saw Munster seal the win in front of a large and vocal crowd. The atmosphere on the pitch as the teams ran out was amazing, something that has been absent for a while. Hopefully the faithful will do the same in Thomond Park tomorrow and support the team in doing the same again against Scarlets.
About Me
I’m a web consultant, contract web developer and technical project manager originally from Cork and now based in Swansea, South Wales. A lot of my work is done with clients in Ireland & the UK, where I offer strategy, planning and technical delivery services. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com.
