Picture of me on my bike

So it's like really beautiful cycling to work through Richmond Park. All over you sitting on stuffy tubes totally are missing out.

But

Why did no one tell me about the hills. On my god, my legs and my arse have found new meaning to pain.

Picture of new Macbook Pro 15.4 Closed

So slim.

And tiny.

And sexy.

Mr Jobs, I love you so.

So as anyone who has ever discussed anything with me knows, it can be an exercise in frustration. So it was no surprise yesterday during a feedback session, that a couple of the points, were the same points, I've hearing since I was six. In fact when you get the same feedback from your boss and your mom you know it's time to make a change.

  • Be more structured in verbal communication. Adrian summarises and structures well in written comms, but sometimes struggles to “make his point” in meetings/conversations
  • At times, Adrian could be more concise when making his point, especially to a large group. It can sound like he says the same thing in different words a few times over
  • Being more succinct verbally – I admit to getting lost occasionally
  • Using odd analogies – the one about trying to persuade his girlfriend to do something she didn’t want to do (that left ___ in giggling hysterics) or eBay playing the referee in a game. Neither really worked

Now essentially I blog the way I talk. Especially in comments. So even those of you who haven't spoken or IM'ed me in RL probably can see this is many of my blogs or my 'discussions' in comments.

So two things

  1. If you see me doing this, either in a rambling blog post, or in person, please call me on this. Let me know I'm doing this and point out what I am doing. I can't change if I don't know I'm doing this. Please do this anyway, even if I get defensive. Remind me of this post if you have to, and you are entitled to slap me if I don't listen

  2. How do you go about structuring your thoughts when presenting an argument, point, or merely discussing something? How do you reach all that blur of information in your mind and consolidate it into saying something meaningful, instead of coming up with a creative analogy that helps you understand things but confuses everything else

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