The Google Sheet mentioned in this article is available to anyone here. If you don’t work in tech (and perhaps even if you do), you may not know that the ‘ultimate’ tech role in a company is deeply varied. …

This was written over the weekend of 21/22 March and is likely to be out of date by the time you read it. Standing here now, as the misty fingers of a dawning global pandemic uncurl around us, we’re repeatedly told that we’re experiencing an unprecedented, fast moving situation. The…

This guide is intended for senior technologists and tech-aware execs in small and medium size firms, especially rapidly scaling startups. It’s not meant for very large businesses or security professionals, and it’s certainly not meant to replace their advice. A sad truth of the internet age is that it’s almost…

Five years ago I discovered rock climbing. To be precise, I discovered ‘indoor climbing’ with a group of work colleagues. It was one of those team building events where we were taken to do challenging things in the hope that we would become a ‘high performance team’. Whether we became…

Business technology is often unloved — email, laptops, finance systems and sales tools just don’t feel as important as building a great product. But getting business tech wrong will cost money and may even kill your business. Why do I care about Business Tech? As a CTO, I spent many years of my career worrying about how…

If strategy is crucial to the existence of a business, how come so many successful companies are awful at it?

I’ve recently been reading Creativity, Inc, Ed Catmull’s description of the history of culture and processes at Pixar. …

Each year, I pull together the biggest tech trends and events for the last year. Originally, this was a tribute to the amazing team that I worked with at Reed for their hard work over the year. Now, it’s tending towards an obsession. …

I was recently fortunate enough to have lunch with a new colleague and as we idly shared tapas and chatted about work, I accidentally let one of my dirty secrets slip. Some conversation topics can have a stigma attached to them, like admitting that you’re a grown adult who still…