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Oct 17, 2022

So I have a secret to share… I’ve been working for a while now with the BBC and

@BloomsburyBooks

to turn the CEO Secrets business advice series into a book! It's out 10 November and you can pre-order here: linktr.ee/ceosecretsbook -- read on for a 🧵 ... cc

8/ If you are interested BBC Radio spoke with Adrian Huckin of Melin Homes who have been piloting the tech for local authorities in Wales - 54 minutes in...

Radio Wales Drive with Gareth Lewis - 06/02/2023 - BBC Sounds

Everything you need to know from Wales and the world.

Electric wallpaper:

spoke with Adrian Huckin of Melin Homes who have been piloting the tech for local authorities in Wales - 54 minutes in...

Radio Wales Drive with Gareth Lewis - 06/02/2023 - BBC Sounds

Everything you need to know from Wales and the world.

7/ I did all this as a solo deployment, shooting everything on my iPhone 12. I've been working on this for a long time in the background, so it's been about 6 months from start to finish I think (I had to find the same shirt to wear it in each filming outing!).

6/ Finally, I also met up with

@fawcett_tina

of the

@ecioxford

to get her perspective on the tech - especially, how it compares to air souce heat pumps...

5/ /And I took another trip up to Hull, to visit a firm that makes a different version of the paper called

@iHeliosLiving

, where I also caught up with a private homeowner, Kris, using the tech in his house. You can see him here:

Farewell radiators? Testing out electric infrared wallpaper

Pilots are being run around the UK to see if electric wallpaper could be an efficient way to heat homes.

4/ It turns out several councils and housing associations across England and Wales are running pilots with the wallpaper. So I organised a visit to a home taking part in Ealing, west London, meeting

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3/ ...the graphene wallpaper by

@NexgenHeating

was one of them. I had never heard about it before, so I was intrigued - and took a bet that the BBC audience would be too...

2/ I first came across this tech when I visited

@OctopusEnergy

's R&D and training facility in Slough, where I met

@g__j

and their future tech evangelist (I think that is his actual job title!)

@agile_phil

. They showed me a range of tech they were investigating...

Farewell radiators? Testing out electric infrared wallpaper

⚡️ Electric, infrared wallpaper. Is it a greener, cheaper way to heat our homes? Great to see my report get a run on BBC One Breakfast at the weekend. 🧵 ...

From

I've been taking a look at electric, infrared wallpaper as an alternative way to heat your home for

@BBCBusiness

- TV report on Breakfast cc

Pilots are being run around the UK to see if electric wallpaper could be an efficient way to heat homes.

Feb 4

There should be a button on Deliveroo or Uber Eats to stop your order arriving in the crucial closing minute of a sports match #ENGSCO

USCGPacificNorthwest and U.S. Coast Guard

Jonathan Mustard

@CoastguardJM

Feb 4

#Mayday🛟 Incredible footage from my US #Coastguard

@USCGPacificNW

colleagues. Watch the moment a rescue swimmer was deployed from the helicopter🚁to a boat in distress just as a huge rolling wave 🌊hit… all persons were successfully rescued from the water and onto hospital.🙌

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Gavin Esler

@gavinesler

Feb 2

I’m in the world’s most beautiful city. But not for long enough … the clue is on the right of the picture. Any guesses?

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Feb 2

Today I met up Mark Barrocas of SharkNinja for a recording of BBC #ceosecrets. Interestingly their R&D facility is inside a shopping mall - an impressive mall at that…

Feb 2

About to enter the old Battersea Power Station, to engage a ninja for

"HSBC has become the latest big company to announce a shift to more casual uniforms for 4,000 branch staff. The new range includes jumpsuits and "menopause-friendly" garments for women, ethnic-wear, including tunics and hijabs, and chinos and jeans."

HSBC staff get a uniform of jumpsuits and jeans

The shift to casual wear for the bank's UK branch staff comes after BA unveiled jumpsuits for cabin crew.

Feb 1

"Paying for 1000 blind people to have eye surgery is a nice thing to do, but turning that act of generosity into content makes it into a tacky and tasteless act of charity porn".

MrBeast: Why has YouTuber faced criticism for blind surgery video?

The world's most popular YouTuber has responded to criticism over him funding life-changing operations.

Feb 1

Do you know how much caffeine is in your takeaway cup, whether it's Nero, Costa or Starbucks? Daniel Thomas has been taking a look at the

@WhichUK

report. I always felt the Starbucks cappuccino was pretty strong, but here are the stats...

Caffeine levels in High Street coffee varies hugely, testing found

One espresso contained six times the caffeine found in one from another chain, research shows.

Feb 1

2/ Big change in lyrical content in mainstream pop in last 20 years or so. If you listen to say, daytime Capital FM, every third song will need to have expletives or drugs/sex references censored out (with Doja Cat you can lose half the song...)

Another interesting piece on Raye by

@mrdiscopop

. Raises the point of whether her label held her back due to the lyrical content of Escapism. The same industry that can sign off on the Sam Smith video - weird how it works...

Raye: 'My drug use got pretty deep and really dangerous'

The star, whose debut album was held in limbo for years, explains how she escaped her darkest days.

A peek at the future - watch hydrogen-powered trucks in action, which in the future will be driverless too - video by

@sameverett_

The trucks ditching diesel and drivers

From addressing the climate emergency to the shortage of HGV drivers, is this the future?

Rob Brydon

@RobBrydon

Jan 31

The other day our cat brought a dead frog into the house. I picked it up in some kitchen towel and rather than putting him in the garden where he might be recaptured, albeit posthumously, I carefully put him in the bin. 24 hours later I noticed something unusual at the bin... 😮

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Jan 31

I thought it would take maybe 10 attempts to record this joint piece-to-camera. But we did it in one take, I didn't count on the power of twins, used to working in coordination! #ceosecrets - coming soon

"You feel your usefulness has passed." The plight of over 50s in the job market - by

@NoorNanji

and Will Harris

Over-50s at work: 'You feel your usefulness has passed'

A survey suggests applicants are right when they say employers are less open to hiring older workers.

Julie Ritson

@juleslenshen

Jan 31

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Jan 30

"That financial pressure increasingly meant cutting back on video streaming subscriptions, particularly where households often had three or more different services in the same household."

Video streaming subscriptions fall by two million in 2022

Households cut back on streaming services in their droves as the cost of living rose sharply.

Jan 29

A powerful and engrossing story by ⁦

@meghamohan

⁩ about fertility, parenthood and power dynamics

The joy and the trauma of carrying a celebrity's baby

Shanna St Clair was a surrogate for a celebrity twice – one experience was "beautiful", the other "terrible”.

Jan 28

Good to see a UK department store experimenting with a dedicated second-hand clothes area (see BBC story bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan) - Back in 2019 I visited

@ReTuna_Etuna

in Sweden, where a whole mall is devoted to second-hand goods...

“My advice is invest your time in TikTok” -

@SarahhAshcroft

explains the sales conversion rates she gets there for her fashion creations, and how it’s different to Instagram. And LinkedIn is a good place to find suppliers - #StartUpShow

“Turn your brand into a kind of social media influencer and show your customers the nitty gritty behind-the-scenes” -

@SarahhAshcroft

of SLA speaking at #StartUpShow by

@e_nation

felicitycowie

@felicitycowie

Jan 28

‘Every day feels like the day you can die.’

@TimArmoo

reaction when people told him to ‘enjoy the process’ as an entrepreneur 😆 Fantastic session at #StartupShow where he was keeping it real and sharing amazing advice via chat with

Backstage with

after our interview on stage at #startupshow, the event organised by

@e_nation

Marcus Strudwick

@StrudwickM

Jan 28

"Build with the end in mind" #StartUpShow

All set to speak with

@TimArmoo

at the #startupshow by

@e_nation

- whole show is sold out

Jan 27

"You ask most bosses, everybody secretly wants everyone to come back into the office." Is Tony Danker, director-general of the CBI, right? I've heard this view from a few bosses, but I also know that a lot of people who work in HR disagree.

Bosses secretly want staff back in office, says CBI's Tony Danker

The head of the business lobby group claims the world of work has "gone crazy" since the pandemic.

Jan 25

If this food takes off it poses an interesting moral dilemma - if it tastes exactly the same, would you still insist on eating the meat of an animal that had been bred and killed?

Eating chicken without killing chicken?

A US firm has regulatory approval for lab-grown meat and is aiming to sell it to restaurants soon.