Goedemorgen, everyone. What a glorious day it is to create shareholder value.
Sharon O'Dea
@sharonodea.com
Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder, Lithos Partners. Author, Digital Communications at Work. Gym bore. Gets about a bit.
The stage musical of Grease came out in 1971. It’s set in 1958. If a similar period piece were made today it would be set in 2013.
Mark@vbloke.com · 3d agoRaiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981, but was set in 1936 - a difference of 45 years. If they made the film today, the same time difference would mean it would be set in 1981.
Half a decade since my only experience riding in an ambulance. 0/10, do not recommend slashing your leg open in a swimming pool.
An inflatable Trump and Putin had to deflate under every single Amsterdam canal bridge, then majestically reinflate on the other side. Eighty boats and the best joke of the day was written by seventeenth-century civil engineering. Weeknote 31: sharonodea.com/2026/08/02/w...
Weeknote 2026/31
The Canal Parade on Amsterdam’s Prinsengracht canal (Photo: me) I spent much of this week being reminded that systems have lives of their own. You can appoint community champions, but the act…
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Full Self Driving for Tesla has been “coming next year” for some eleven years now. Which merely begs the question: why are his predictions about the future still given any credence at all?
Taylor Noakes@taylornoakes.com · last wk.Words cannot describe how much I despise this person’s contempt for how hard real scientists work It’s the kind of attitude you can only get from inheriting a fortune from an Apartheid era emerald mine finance.yahoo.com/sectors/heal...
If you want to see the extent to which one leader's values and words can fuck a successful brand in just a few years, a fashion & beauty make-up FB group I'm in that rarely touches on politics has a 135-comment thread on getting rid of your Tesla, and not one single person defends keeping it.
There are only two occasions where everyone from across your life turns up at once: your funeral, and your first book launch. Can recommend the latter. Better catering, less crying, and the guest of honour gets to wear a cape. sharonodea.com/2026/07/26/w...
Weeknote 2026/30
Me speaking to guests at the Digital Communications at Work book launch (Photo: Paul Clarke) Some weeks resist the usual format. This is one of them. I could tell you what I’ve been reading, …
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What mundane things has Trump ruined for you? For me it’s the word Tremendous, and the number 47. I’ll instinctively swerve this locker at the gym.
Are DPD as bad as Evri now? Second time in a week had a “no one answered” when the Ring doorbell shows no one even came close to the door.
Some people say I have a low risk appetite but I’ve come to London with no jacket and no umbrella
Walking through the Pride Zero Flags Project on Museumplein. Each flag marks one of the countries where homosexuality is still criminalised, every pole ribboned in mourning, every plinth naming the penalty. A sobering reminder that for too many worldwide, the fight for rights remains existential.
Bumper three-weeknote includes: • crying in a bookshop, obsessively refreshing Amazon rankings • a client trying to build an AI-first comms function • Peaches dressed as a bag of dicks • a worrying number of conversations that all reached the same conclusion sharonodea.com/2026/07/19/w...
Weeknote 2026/29
My book. On a shelf. In a shop. (Photo: me) I have spent the last three weeks becoming the sort of person who cries in bookshops, obsessively refreshes Amazon bestseller rankings, and voluntarily d…
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Very much enjoying how everyone has given Trump a perfunctory handshake and moved on to actual warmth from everyone else on stage
Right now consultants everywhere are asking ChatGPT to draft a LinkedIn post on what Spain/Argentina winning teaches us about digital transformation.
You’d think he’d learn about never smiling at crocodile after that.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 3w agoBoy attacked by Cambridgeshire zoo crocodile 'smiling again' - parents
It’s World Emoji Day 📅 In one or more emojis, what mental state are you in right now? Me: 🫠
Of all the therapy-speak that’s escaped into everyday language, none winds me up quite like “core memories.” Every pricey family holiday is now sold as an opportunity to manufacture one. Disney. Center Parcs. £14 hot chocolate in Lapland. “You’re making core memories.” No. You’re going on holiday.
Football’s mum reads her text messages and tells football’s dad not to worry about that lift from the station.
Sharon O'Dea@sharonodea.com · 3w agoFootball’s mum is hoovering the spare room
This also applies to anyone with one Irish grandparent. Which is something like one in six Brits. It’s the thin edge of a huge and dangerous wedge.
Samira Shackle@samirashackle.bsky.social · 3w agoThat means every second generation immigrant could potentially have their citizenship stripped, as well as every Jewish person in the UK. The result is a law which applies to some people and not to others. How it is implemented depends almost entirely on the good faith of the home secretary.
Watching my brilliant business partner @digitaljonathan.bsky.social be awarded an honorary doctorate by Bristol University. Proud of you, Jon!
The weather sucks balls for three quarters of the year but my God on warm summer’s evening Amsterdam is the best fuckin’ place on earth
It’s clearly a long way from the maddest part of this, but being photographed doing whatever the fuck that is with her hands also suggests a real disinterest in what the public think of her/the Tories.
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 3w agoMadness. Utter madness. Badenoch is quietly turning what used to be a broad church into an even narrower sect.
How can anyone be expected to create shareholder value on a day like this?
Roald Amundsen, Petter Solberg, Karl Ove Knausgård, Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Jens Stoltenberg can you hear me? Your boys took a hell of a beating.