I was in the City on Thursday evening for a tech event. I first had to navigate my way through the rabbit warren behind Liverpool Street station, where workers were already fully into their Thirsty Thursday drinks. I'd forgotten how like a scene out of Industry it can be, with well-lubricated/chemicaled City boys in gilets spilling out of the pubs. Numi's conference was worth the journey. After many years of being uncomfortable when networking, I just get on with it, including chatting to some of the product and engineering team at The Economist, one of whom was an Altium user in an earlier electronics career. The panel talks were on decision-making, strategy and (inevitably) AI. From a strong panel line-up, I enjoyed Conrad Ford's comments on reducing dependencies to scale teams, for which he later recommended me The Geek Way, which I've just started reading. Back in leafy Hertfordshire, H is through to the final trial for the district football team, and has also been offered a place…
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