Police Story Double Bill Review Christmas 1991. That was the first time I saw Jackie Chan’s Police Story (1985). It was part of a Channel 4 season of asian action cinema movies. It wowed me back then, and seemed to be head and heels over every other “kung fu” action movie that was around that time and spawned a personal […]
5 ways to frame the problem What problem are we solving? In business, there’s no shortage of customer needs, customer problems to tackle. Startups may have it easier, they focus on a single problem; whereas bigger organisations may have a multitude of problems they could choose from. Picking the right one can be difficult; but can bring focus about what your […]
What makes an original idea? And does it matter? I recently got asked “what is the most original idea you’ve got?” I found it quite hard to answer. Looking back, I wish I asked “can you please define original ideas”; or “what are the metrics we are looking at?” I didn’t. I wish I did though. Here is why I think it’s really hard […]
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My time as Innovation Coach Last week marked the last day of my time as innovation coach for the University of Sunderland. Working with the Entrepreneurial Development Team, my role was to help create co-curricular and extra curricular projects for students to help inspire and encourage students to consider entrepreneurship and starting their own business as part of their career […]
User stories: Do users really care about signing in? When crafting user stories to document what tasks or Jobs to be done a user might be doing in a process or website or app, typically you may see a story similar to this: As a {user} I want to sign in so that {goal} Sometimes I’ve seen user stories where it just says a […]
Thoughts on Colonial: Europe’s Empires Overseas Thoughts on how the game Colonial: Europe’s Empires Overseas could be improved
My favorite 3 board games of 2022 In 2022, I was able to play a number of designer, strategy games and I have selected the following three games as my favourites. 1. Findorff BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360617/findorff Designer: Friedemann Friese What is the game about? Set in Findorff, Germany, the game is essentially a race engine builder game where players build brick, rail and […]
A few days with Go This week I have been dabbling into the foundations of the Go programming language. I’ve been hearing a lot about it, and decided that I wanted to do the absolute foundations, and not try to jump straight to building the next killer app. I’ve been following the online Go lang book and one or two […]
7 ideas for making YouTube better Over the past decade YouTube, the biggest video sharing website, has seen an explosion of content creators and regularly attracts millions, if not billions, of views across the world. For creators YouTube seems to have completely replaced blogging, and is fast becoming the first thing people use for solving problems; video communicates way more than […]
