Patriots

So no storify on yesterday’s meeting; I am planned a blog article on PASOK’s collapse instead; I finished the day watching Boston Legal S4E20, the last of the season where Alan & Denny go head-to-head over the “Patriot Act”, using the conceit of a town secession. This was first shown in May 2008 and is, given the time of production, a magnificently brave piece of writing; exploring the dilemma of the Republic and how one defends a democracy and keeps friends. Fiction as a lens on politics. …

The customer is, and shall be king

I have posted an article on my linkedin blog, which looks at the future of banking technology particularly as it applies to their technical debt in the data centre. It argues that customer intimacy is key. I say,

So the incumbent players have to re-modernise their systems, build fit for purpose customer relationship management systems i.e. KYC and cope with the business disruption that new software driven competitors are developing, on top of which margins in retail financial services are very low.

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Spicy

A trip to “Silk Road” in Camberwell, a Chinese Restaurant with food from Xinjiang province. Here’s a hint, when someone says “you like spicy food?”, the answer in my case is probably No! Leave the 🌶🌶🌶 alone. The shish kebabs though were great; not what I expect from a Chinese menu and I plan to return. …