Power & Learning

I estimate state education has set my technical ability as a coder back about a decade. This is annoying, but I think I now have my finger on a core thread that really needs pulling.

I value conciseness so here’s what I think the essence of it is:

Getting people to work together without using bribery or coercion

“The antidote to self-interest is to commit and to find cause. To commit to something outside of ourselves.” Peter Block

Group smells

As a programmer, part of my job is to spot ‘code smells’. Like being alert for musky over-ripeness somewhere in your fridge, or unwanted acridity of burning plastic coming from your computer, smells hint that nearby, something is amiss, and it’s probably going to get worse.

Bold ideas to catalyse 21st century organisations

About knitting and stitches: Enspiral as a close-knit relational network.

The 4 Reasons your People aren’t engaged

Or “why I subverted my promise to myself never to write an essay with this title, let alone a listicle!”

Enspiral’s Digital Nomads

I’m sitting in a really uncomfortable chair in an amazing house in Amsterdam. It’s my fifth country in 12 weeks…

Are you making the most of open source thinking?

Taking open source beyond code.

Open source — beyond code.

Thinking open and designing for participation, collaboration and transparency changes how we think about how…