Meaning is not passive – it’s something you can choose to create by the way you choose to behave I must have hundreds of books in my library in and around the subject of meaning (semantics, semiotics...
Do you have two minutes? That’s how long it will take Steven Pinker to teach you the most important rule for creating shared meaning. If you prefer to watch than read, then the conversation is here, and this snippet...
Two things annoy me about mainstream commentary on business jargon: The assumption that “why couldn’t they just say what they mean”? The nauseatingly self-righteous tone If you want a topical example...
There’s plenty of material out there on giving a talk no one will forget. But how do you avoid forgetting it yourself? For a lot of people, that’s their number one fear of public speaking. Well exactly a year ago...
“If your organisation actually lived its values then you probably wouldn’t need to put them on a poster on the wall” I used to think this was a really cute quote. I’m used to values being something the board decrees...
I love the quarterly Dev days that SCIO puts on – an opportunity to sit down with like-minded folks and talk about the world through various systems lenses. One of the situations we explored at the last Dev day was the...
I was on the train a while back, when the conductor announced: “We apologise for the delay to this service, caused by technical difficulties arising from train allocation at Worcester Shrub Hill”. The lady with the...
Here are all the answers from our 2017 Christmas card. Turns out a lot of people found it harder than we were expecting! There are actually more than twenty four answers hidden here, and several have more than one...
