Episode 73 – What Good Looks Like

On this week’s show we welcome back the WB40 Bookclub. We review Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle is the Way (Spoiler: we didn’t like it). For the next four weeks we have two more titles for your reading pleasure: Be More Pirate by Sam Conniff Allende The Everything Store by Brad Stone Also on this week’s show […]

Episode 72 – Digital Health

On this week’s show we interview Diffrnt Group CEO Rachel Murphy about a new approach to consulting, and the challenges of digital in the Health industry. This week’s fontastic Internet Yang is retold in this story from The Globe and Mail. Join us at the WB40Podcast WhatsApp group! Just drop us a line on Twitter and […]

Episode 71 – Skillz

On this week’s show we review John Doerr’s Measure What Matters as book number 4 in the WB40 Bookclub, and Chris speaks to staffing expert Mark Hankin about the evolving IT work market. Don’t forget you can join the conversation by joining out WhatsApp group – just drop us a line on Twitter for an […]

Episode 70 – Sustainable Goals

On this week’s show we interview Futerra’s Ed Gillespie about the Global Goals Accelerator, and we reveal the first news about the WB40 Intergalactic Congress. To find out more about Ed’s work, look at the blog here, and if you are interested in applying then check out Bethnal Green Ventures site. This week Chris’s Yang was […]

Episode 69 – Containerised Data

In this week’s show we interview Datastax’s Patrick McFadin about data, development and containerised services. We also review the latest book from Tom Peters’ – The Excellence Dividend, and choose the next title for the WB40 Bookclub – John Doerr’s Measure What Matters You can find the long list for the next book here. Don’t […]

Episode 68 – DevOps

On this week’s episode Chris and Matt speak to DevOps expert Tom Geraghty about the challenges of adopting a continuous delivery model of working. Some further reading from Tom: Book list: The Phoenix Project The DevOps handbook Accelerate – the science of devops The Goal (this is the book the phoenix project was based on) […]

Episode 67 – Justice

After the Whitsun break, @WB40podcast is back with bookclub, spot opinions on the Microsoft/Github news, and an interview with the rather wonderful @DaveRog from the MoJ talking about tech in big gov departments:

Episode 66 – How we find work

On this week’s show Matt & Chris discuss the ways in which as free-range workers they find work. We also have Chris’s Yin (the HTC Blockchain Smartphone) and Yang (how to encrypt your entire life) Last week’s WB40 book club was The Power of Moments, and the one for the next fortnight is Now the […]

Episode 65 – Boundaries

On this week’s show Matt & Chris discuss the boundaries between groups in organisations, and how that’s often where the pain can lie. Matt mentioned this blog post: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2018/01/18/which-path-to-take/ This week’s Internet Yang is the Google VR Tour Creator: https://vr.google.com/tourcreator/ The XKCD comic Chris mentioned is here https://xkcd.com/1989/ The first WB40 Bookclub book is Chip & Dan […]

Drawpod Episode 3

https://www.buzzsprout.com/170477/698944-drawpod-episode-3.mp3 Matt and Chris are taking a May Day Break this week, but to keep you entertained here’s episode three of Drawpod. This is the last one we’ll drip feed through the WB40 feed, so if you want the rest of the season you’ll need to subscribe – http://drawpod.buzzsprout.com/170477.rss or on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/drawpod/id1375904622 Take part! Take part […]