We watched Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which was harrowing, even though I had watched a previous programme on the Horizon scandal and knew the extent of the Post…
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Category: Business, Work & Careers
To be a serious professional these days, you have to check LinkedIn at least twice an hour. Every good blog post starts with a fact, and that’s mine. Usually you…
I listened to the Waters Wavelength podcast’s episode on the Australian Stock Exchange’s decision to halt their long-running project to replace Chess, their old post-trade system, with a blockchain-based platform.…
Parking in areas where there is a lot of demand is a fascinating case study in some of the principles of economics. Southwark council has recently enforced a controlled parking…
Finnish LinkedIn is talking about #TärkeäOsaMinua (‘an important part of me’), which seems to have originated as a social media campaign by one of the big trade unions to get people to think about their professional identity. I’ve really enjoyed reading the posts tagged with the slogan, and here’s mine!
This quarter and the last I’ve been on a bend to use up certain storage deposits located around my waist. Noom worked the best, although the chipper, chummy style of…
One of the things a new hatchling consultant has to get their head around is the idea that for some things the client wants to know, no answer can exist.
Total revamp always sounds so appealing: start afresh! ‘Thinking it through’. First principles. And so on and so forth.
Last night, the toddler slept through and the baby only woke once. In the morning I woke up with that slightly horrible feeling of having slept so deeply that your…
Have you ever used Excel Tables? ‘Of course I have’, you may think to yourself, but I’m here to prove you wrong. You probably believe an ‘Excel Table’ is, well, a table in Excel, like… a spreadsheet. But there’s a actually a specific tool in Excel called ‘Table’, and it is magnificently usable.
This is what an Excel Table looks like: