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Article — 4 July 2019 — 642 words

Managing your professional decline

Business — Formula 1 — Society — Work

Person in a parachute over hills

It is suggested that a decline in our careers is inevitable, and comes earlier than you might expect. So what should we do about it?

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Article — 16 December 2018 — 863 words

Belgian Grand Prix race day — Trip to Belgium part 3

Formula 1 — Motorsport — Personal — Travel

F1 start lights

This year’s Belgian Grand Prix may have been a damp squib, but we still had a great time on race day.

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Article — 13 December 2018 — 1,089 words

Trip to Belgium part 2 — Belgian Grand Prix qualifying day, and F1 Vision reviewed

Formula 1 — Motorsport — Personal — Technology — Travel

Alex, me and Gordon watching qualifying

The on-track action ramped up on Saturday, with the the first races of the weekend — and F1 qualifying. But the handheld F1 Vision device could have done with some improvements.

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Article — 9 December 2018 — 1,191 words

Our first grand prix experience — Trip to Belgium part 1 — Arrival and Friday practice

Formula 1 — Personal — Travel

La Source with crowds on it, on the Thursday evening of the Belgian Grand Prix

Even though both Gordon and I have been avid Formula 1 fans since we were kids, we have never made it to a grand prix. That changed when we went with Alex on a road trip to see the Belgian Grand Prix.

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Article — 11 November 2018 — 1,015 words

How to get results in the ultimate agile environment

Business — Formula 1 — Technology — Work

Ferrari pit stop

How lessons from how Formula 1 teams are managed could apply to other businesses.

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Article — 20 September 2018 — 527 words

The problem with trusting experience over expertise (a story about design thinking, astronauts, Formula 1 pundits and Brexit)

Architecture — Design — Formula 1 — Media — Politics

Astronaut

The media — and society in general — has gradually drifted away from listening to expert figures, in favour of practitioners. But it is leaving us less enlightened.

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Article — 22 March 2018 — 1,953 words

20 years ago I wrote to every F1 team — this is what they sent back

Formula 1

The swag F1 teams sent me

The response I got from the teams was varied and telling. In many ways, the character of each team shone through in how they responded.

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Article — 14 March 2015 — 762 words

Improve the user experience of Formula 1 live timing with this one small tweak

Design — Digital — Formula 1 — User experience — Web

Formula1.com live timing custom stylesheet

The new Formula1.com has brought great new live timing functionality. But the user experience could be improved. Find out how you can improve it yourself in time for the Australian Grand Prix.

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