The Blog is a collection of experiences, told in narrative form.

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Thomas Friberg 31/12/21 Thomas Friberg 31/12/21

Closing 2021

With 2021 behind us, I test out my previous hypotheses about shifting from new years resolutions and goal setting to a more belief and identity based approach to forming new habits. I refine my framework for habit setting and tweak my prompts for improvement by adding a quarterly reflection cycle.

Thomas Friberg 27/12/21 Thomas Friberg 27/12/21

The opportunity canvas

Opportunity Canvases have replaced traditional business cases in environments where investors have realised that their portfolio is wracked with uncertainty that results in claimed benefits not being realised years after an investment decision has been made to deliver a monolithic project. This article explores the origin of the opportunity canvas and what you should consider as you try out this tool as a facilitator for transformation of a portfolio of opportunities.

Thomas Friberg 25/3/21 Thomas Friberg 25/3/21

Changing course

I’m moving from Synergy to IBM Garage. I used three hypotheses to make sense of the instinct to move and now I’ll build these hypotheses in to my regular check-in and reflection.

Thomas Friberg 14/3/21 Thomas Friberg 14/3/21

Atomic Habits

My Fiancé and I took a long drive to the south-west of Australia and discovered James Clear’s Atomic Habits on Audible. We got out of the car at 10pm after a 4 hour drive with more energy, not less, buoyed by the ideas we had debated along the way. My take away was that while my past habits of annual goal setting had been adequate, the practice could be improved.

Thomas Friberg 12/3/21 Thomas Friberg 12/3/21

Easy Air Conditioning Control

I get annoyed by the fact I have to get out of bed to turn on the air conditioning and solve the problem by connecting the AC to my home automation system.

Thomas Friberg 9/2/21 Thomas Friberg 9/2/21

That time you almost electrocuted yourself

In 2013, I was on a journey to building my own electric car for fun, or at least a bike-path based prototype before scaling to road-scale. In February 2014, I made my first weld as I assembled the steel spine of the 3-wheeled recumbent trike frame. This was something I felt relatively capable of doing as a mechanical engineer and I had even sifted through the ‘Australian Design Rules’ to determine the requirements of the street-legal version. What I didn’t anticipate was that the mechanical and structural side would be the least of my problems.