Category: Stuff
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Hasan Minaj – Homecoming King
So, I started with Seinfeld. A little coffee, a few laughs and a Ferrari. Good start to the day, and he’s talking to Hasan Minaj, who I know from the Daily Show. Sharp, fast, smart and damn funny. Talking about a special on Netflix, hmm, sounds fun, fire that up. However, you really need a […]
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The Defiant Ones
Ah, the story behind Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine. Been planning to watch this for a while, but busy busy with the chatbot world. Thankfully, Christmas brings break time and so I’m neck deep in books, film and tv, I want to catch up on. I only really knew the headlines to their stories. Springsteen, […]
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The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Starts so well I’d heard about this book many times, with it often being cited as a great guide on creativity. For the first 2/3, I was in full absorb mode, fascinated, highlighting passages and nodding to myself but then god, angels, muses and mysticism. Sorry, lost me at that point. I’ve taken a good […]
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Conversation as a UI
Really enjoyed Conversational Design by Erika Hall, it illustrated very clearly how digital design, in order to be truly personal, has to be relatable. It’s also the new frontier. If you’re still focused on optimizing keywords and navigation, it might pay to step back and look at the holisitic picture of the journey and how […]
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Been too long
For someone so embedded in the digital world, it’s a shame I’ve left this so long. As I’m embarking on a new journey into ai, thought it a good time to start a new chapter. Been doing a lot of reading and would recommend Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction by Chris Sims & […]
Mike Hales 