Author Archives for Nick Shepheard

Computed reality

November 30, 2016 8:29 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

There’s a beautiful pleasure in getting computers to do things. To bend their obedient unthinking nature to take the heavy lifting on complex models, to boot the hello-world code into... Read more


Bend and soak

November 29, 2016 4:55 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Are you sure? You’re setting up the new system/product/process/person/partner/supplier, and as usual, the newness is based on lots of due diligence, mostly positive feelings, a little bit of happy-talk and... Read more


A proper wedge

November 28, 2016 8:18 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Some jobs (most jobs?) get done is snippets of time. Snuck in with meetings, there’s phone calls and interruptions and walking about, there’s slice-of-life encounters and email and nudging and... Read more


Two by four

November 27, 2016 8:10 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Timed somewhere between a blue moon and once in a while, you’re bound to get hit full-square in the forehead by a two-by-four that knocks you back on your keister... Read more