Author: chris

  • Handy snippets – Python without the .pyc cruft

    I maintain a huge workflowy file of snippets and tricks and, I suspect some of them will be handy for others to use too. I’m going to sharing them regularly, when I’m not sure what to write, mainly to keep the habit of blogging, until it comes naturally. Part of my professional life, involves me…

  • Value Chain Mapping by example with Growing Communities

    Through my company Product Science, for the last three years I’ve been working with Growing Communities a non-profit organisation set up in the 90s to get good, fairly traded, organic food to people in a neighbourhood, in an environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable way. In the summer of 2015, during a strategy planning workshop together we used…

  • Ganzeer. My new favourite writer

    I’ve been a subscriber of Ganzeer’s newsletter Restricted Frequency, and a fan of the Solar Grid for a good few months, and as I try to get into the habit of writing more, it seemed worth sharing why in a quick post.

  • Starting over

    I’ve taken a bit of time over the May Day bank holiday to try sorting out my personal presence online. This post outlines what to expect here, as I start writing online again.