June 9th, 2010
Really excited for a couple of guys from my teams…they’re starting their #Fusion journey today in RMA Sandhurst. We’ve swapped a few emails about the course and spoken a little but there’s nothing like that feeling of excitement mixed with trepidation at the kick-off session with a room-full of (largely unknown) colleagues. It’s only a little over a year since I started all this myself and having only just ‘graduated’ into the Fusioneer ranks I’m keen to see what they make of the whole experience.
Good luck @cafuski and Charles!
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Location:Edinburgh airport,United Kingdom
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June 8th, 2010
Cross post from Seth Godin’s blog
- People don’t like deadlines. They mean a decision, shipping and risk. They force us to decide.
- Deadlines work. Products that are about to disappear, auctions that are about to end, tickets that are about to sell out–they create forward motion.
- Deadlines make people do dumb things. Every time I offer a free digital document or an educational event that has a deadline, I can guarantee I will hear from several (or dozens of) people with ornate, well-considered and thoughtful arguments as to why they missed the deadline. Never mind that they had two weeks… the last fifteen minutes are all they are concerned with. If it’s important enough to spend an hour complaining about, it’s certainly important enough to spend four minutes to just do it in the first place.
- Deadlines give you the opportunity to beat the rush. Handing in work just a little bit early is a sure-fire way to tell a positive story and get the attention you seek. The chart below tracks the day (out of 10) that I received each of the more than a thousand applications for the free nano MBA program. Want to guess which day’s applications got the most attention from me?
- When we set ourselves a deadline, we’re incredibly lax about sticking to it. So don’t (set it for yourself, in your head, informally). Write it down instead. Hand it to someone else. Publicize it. Associate it with an external reward or punishment. If you don’t make the deadline, your friend gives the $20 you loaned her to a cause you disagree with…
- They have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That’s what they are.
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June 5th, 2010
At the Portobello swim centre with the groms while Mrs. Boardmad off for a massage in N. Berwick. I was supposed to get this session but I figured her need was greater than mine!
Beautiful day over here in the east and damn warm – might have to admit defeat and take off that last winter semmit??!
Think we’ll have some grub here after class, get the shopping in then get home as I have a lawn in need of serious scalping….ahh good days?!
Hope it’s good where you are ?
Cheers
Scotty
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Location:Edinburgh,United Kingdom
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May 30th, 2010
Just back from an awesome session on Glentress with Mrs. Boardmad who convinced me that we should put our afternoon’s grommet-free time to better use than some good food and sitting in a dark room watching SitC2 (over my dead body)
Hired a couple of Kona Caldera hardtails and hit the trails…spent the first half hour or so getting warmed up, getting used to the bikes (which looked brand new!) and shaking off some of the rust then went off into the woods for some fun. Weather not up to BBC’s random forecasting efforts but a bit of rain never hurts and we were getting dirty and sweaty anyway.
The day finished with Mrs. B. heading for the Hub cafe and I had one last hoon down some red/blacks through the trees…heart pounding and thighs aching I appeared at the bottom of the hill some time later tired but very very happy. Think I might have started something…where’s that bike catalogue?
Tags: glentress, mountain biking, thehub
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May 28th, 2010
Heading along M4 with Vinnie after #Fusion 4 closed out in Sandhurst. Another great three days with the IDG and the last time a set of Fusioneers will see Scouse Bob?!
Can’t say a lot about the events of the last session but it didn’t disappoint. Looking forward to gettin home now
#Unity was a blinding success and we now have the new challenge of getting it into production. Very exciting!?
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Location:Great West Rd,Hounslow,United Kingdom
Tags: fusion, sandhurst, unity
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May 26th, 2010
Had breakfast with the majority of #Fusion4 team. Mood seems upbeat and nervous excitement is apparent. Some last-minute shopping excursions to Camberley being planned and queries about logistics at Sandhurst being discussed. HK contingent are all here (except for Wilson – we’ll do our best without him) and don’t seem too jet-lagged. #Fusion 4.5 – Bring it on!!?
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Location:Milden Gardens,Camberley,United Kingdom
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May 25th, 2010
Had a funny conversation with a friend over the weekend about all the important, critical nothings we her over-excited and obsessed about. She made the comment about how small and insignificant our woes really are in the big scheme of things (of course context is everything!)
I played her ‘Galaxy song’ by Monty Python to put things in perspective…I think she got it?!
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Location:Jubilee Rd,Ingliston,United Kingdom
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May 24th, 2010
Typical! One night I need to hit the hay nice and early and Saving Private Ryan is coming on. The most visceral, gut-wrenching and honest depiction of what (I imagine) those landings must have been like.
Oh well….lots of go-juice tomorrow.
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Location:Luggate Burn,United Kingdom
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May 22nd, 2010
See if we havent fixed the timezone offset problem on my server?
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Location:Luggate Burn,United Kingdom
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May 15th, 2010
Still little or no better on speeds today following placing the ADSLMax order. This is a week since the new router and BB combo came together and I should have seen an improvement since then. Time to issue the ‘revert’ order I think.
One last call to IDNet’s excellent customer service team and hopefully they might be able to do something but if not it’s back to the beginning :0)
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