Here are some articles I’ve written, grouped by article type. There’s a mix in here, firstly, the Hugo section covers some technical details on how I set up the CMS I use to run this site. Then the rest is thoughts on leadership, recruitment and management. As well as possibly some stuff on personal development.
A range of articles on running the Hugo CMS for this site.
I used an AI voice generation and narration tool to add audio to the AI Wars article. Here's a bit about how that works, with some further experimentation.
I'm finding the current Bing vs Google AI skirmish really interesting, Google's reaction is mysteriously immature.
I've been posting short posts on LinkedIn trying to push some smaller nuggets of constructive sales advice, here's the collection archived.
I won't work with any agency that sends speculative candidate profiles, because those candidates don't exist. That approach is widespread, and really hurts the recruitment industry.
Attention is the most valuable and sought out resource in the digital world.
The most important lesson I've learned on productivity over the years is to identify my rocks first.
Something martial arts taught me is to understand the basics, then expand and play from there to deepen your learning.
There are for me two broad ways of dealing with a management issue in your team. Most places I've worked have operated on the basis of removing management overhead by the use of global policies that apply to all to deal with problems. The other option is to deal with individuals as individuals and manage the situation, rather than set new restrictive policies.
There's a shortage of digital talent, nationally as well as regionally, how do we fix this and build a digital talent conveyor belt?
Reflective competence is the not widely known 5th stage of the levels of learning, what is it and how do we use it?
Mental health is really important. There is a lot of attention and talk around the importance of de-stigmatising mental health. Of being able to discuss it and provide support and understanding in the workplace. There is also a lot of people discussing it outside of work. How do we enable those conversations?
With my job title, I get a lot of cold sales approaches. There's a lot of automation involved by the looks of it and some of the pitches are just rubbish. Thought it might be helpful to explain what works and doesn't work. Might maybe help someone somewhere sell better and someone somewhere have less junk to filter through.
Currently, only 19% the tech sector roles are women. Only 20% of women would consider a career in digital tech, vs 61% of men. How can we hire more women and improve diversity?
There's a lot of frustration from candidates with employers not listing salary. Why might a company not list the salary? Is it always a red flag? What do employers need to learn?