Rescheduled team away-day in London next week due to train strikes - bummed; it would have been great to get together.
Upgraded to Quarto 1.4. This website still takes way too long to render. If anything, it has gotten worse with this version. Over 16 minutes to render 215 pages. I need to find another system for managing this site.
This quote resonated:
Perhaps part of breakthrough leadership is talking to others like giants. Expecting the most and holding others to it, trusting that they’ll rise to the challenge. Never backing down. Standing for the giant in us all.
(From: Gap International)“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Making a long list of personal development metrics to track, and am conscious of Goodhart’s Law and weary of McNamara’s Fallacy
This is brilliant: The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes. The authors use 1,327 stories from Project Gutenberg to plot the six basic stories.
Reading, watching, listening
Interesting business stuff this week:
The future isn’t a place that we are going to go. It’s a place that you get to create.
Britain, consultation nation (FT paywall - use search to bypass). Yo! It’s us. Management consultancy is Britain’s fourth-biggest export.
Interesting tech stuff this week:
ML + XAI → Strong GLM. This is so good. I always did this “by hand” and while this is not fully automated, it is a great toolbox. See also the published paper SHAP for Actuaries: Explain any Model. I need to do more with this approach.
What I am reading now:
Scaling People - Tactics for management and company building by Claire Hughes Johnson. Stripe Press
Until next week: Travel well, whichever road you are on 👋.
