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Over the weeks since AU, I've been heads-down with writing a chapter for a book that's due to be published in this summer. The book is about innovation in the construction industry, and my chapter will talk about opportunities related to digital twins and generative design. Which means I haven't had much time to write […]
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This year's Halloween was destined to disappoint: we'd held out some hope until the 30th that the kids (which just means our youngest, at this point) would end up being able to go trick-or-treating in our village. Understandably – but disappointingly – the announcement came that any kind of trick-or-treating was off the cards for […]
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The situation in Switzerland regarding the pandemic is looking bleak, at the moment (and no, yodelling isn't helping). The number of cases per-capita is currently ahead of the US, and the critical infrastructure in my home canton is starting to get overwhelmed, hence us being put on "red alert". I'm expecting our kids to be […]
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Our children have been off school for the last two weeks, so I've been alternating between preparing my Autodesk University 2020 material and going on excursions with the family. We had planned to visit Kosovo during this break, but as it was on Switzerland's quarantine list we chose to cancel our flights. Somewhat frustratingly – […]
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Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of my joining Autodesk. The years have literally flown by. To bathe in the nostalgia of the event, I decided to go up into the loft and dig through my old photos, to see what I could find. Here's one of me that was probably taken around the time I […]
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I'm just back from a proper two-week break from work. I say "proper" because it's rare that I manage to disconnect completely from meetings and email, but given the increased mental load of being attached to Zoom over the last several months, it really felt like a good time to force the break. It's been […]
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We've just finished celebrating the 20th anniversary of a dear friend and colleague, Clayton Hotson, joining Autodesk. We were in the same team, way back when Clayton joined, both working from our San Rafael office. Over the years we've ended up doing other things, but in the last few months have happily found ourselves back […]
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I'm sure we've all been thinking lots about the developing situation we're living through at the moment. Between markets crashing, social distancing, school closures and home-working, the world looks very different than it did a few short weeks ago. The below poem came through my inbox, this morning (thanks, Mum!) and it definitely resonated with […]
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I was back home on Thursday night with enough time to have dinner with my family before getting an early night (a relatively easy thing to do after a busy week in Soho). I was out of the door at 5:30am on Friday to get across to Grindelwald for the Gümligen Engineering team's annual ski […]
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I was due to meet with a customer in Zurich on Monday of this week, but unfortunately it had to be rescheduled at fairly short notice. As I'd already bought a non-refundable train ticket – if you buy them a little in advance you can get a day ticket for the whole of Switzerland for […]