2017 Yearnote

While 2016 was a dumpster fire of news, in 2017 shock and outrage seemed to happen so frequently that I found myself becoming weary of it all.

But on a professional and personal note it was a decent year, which I’ll reflect on here as I did last year.

Jamming: creating the conditions for enterprise innovation

An orchestra is a bit like a well run company. All of the elements of the orchestra — the strings, the brass, the percussion — are able to come together with a visible, engaged leader to make something better than the sum of its…

What if Twitter isn’t broken?

Earlier this month writer Lindy West left Twitter, claiming in a blog for the Guardian that it’s now unusable for anyone but trolls, robots and dictators.

This came as something as a surprise to me, as I’m none of these things and I still find it…