Here's Philip Hellyer on Beeminder, Focusmate, and Coaching: linkedin.com/posts/philiphe…

Kenya makes strong statement opposing the undermining of the sovereignty & territorial integrity of #Ukraine during the emergency meeting of the #SecurityCouncil at 9pm on 21st February. See full statement delivered below 👇🏿

Two FFS moments with Office 365 this morning. —A login page on iPad with no keyboard or paste option —A powerpoint that complained "File was Changed Externally … Save a copy to keep your changes." that then refused to save "The document … could not be saved as …"

I wonder if what looks ever more like a huge military, economic, and strategic disaster for Russia is a product of a category error by Putin, who failed to appreciate what type of Russian military action he was starting. (A thread – apologies for the length.)

Extract from the MacRumors.com coverage of yesterday's Apple event: "10:34 am: Showing a video with developers talking about the power of the chip." They omit that every one of the featured developers are women. Glad that #womenintech is so unremarkable. #InternationalWomensDay

Two weeks to go until our next pop up roast for Mother's Day! Please get in touch to book your table! 🍴

For Mothering Sunday, my local is giving out small bottles of Mother's Little Helper (or Mother's Ruin, as you like)

Hurrah! just noticed that the most infuriating #UX bug in Things's Things3 has been fixed! It used to be that in the scheduler, typing the day of the week, e.g. Friday, would choose today rather than next Friday. Now it does what you almost certainly intended. Bravo team.

Why is it that the hardest task in any consultant's life seems to be to combine slides from multiple powerpoint decks?

Ironic. The amazon prime video Mac app updated yesterday. Now it refuses to play content. Had to use Chrome instead. Better user experience.

New client. (Hurrah!) Downloaded their latest annual report to get a handle on what the board is publicly trying to achieve. Turns out that it's been 'optimized', so images look like they were taken with a potato and it's locked so I can't highlight the relevant strategic bits.