The Third Half Weekly
Carbon credits with consequences, Friday philosophy for meetings that won’t end, leadership lessons from a BBC Micro to boardrooms, Glasgow’s hidden theatre in a shoe shop, and resolutions we’ll proba
Carbon Markets: From Good Intentions to Real Consequences
Carbon markets are finally growing up. Fewer dodgy offsets, more actual accountability. Yingyan Lu walks us through why scepticism is earned but momentum matters—and how measurement, verification and commercial reality are quietly making greenwashing harder to hide behind.
🌱💰 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/carbon-markets-are-often-talked-about
A Friday Thought Courtesy of Word Daily
Murmuration: The low hum of work that isn’t working. Post-meeting meetings, thinking out loud, taking things offline—all noise, zero action. Disappears the moment someone asks a clear question. Corporate weather systems, sorted.
🤔💬 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/a-friday-thought-courtesy-of-word
TTH Blueprint Episode 11: Ismail Amla
From a BBC Micro bought by his dad to Network Rail, UK Sport and surviving the dot-com crash, Ismail Amla sits down with Scott Hamilton for a proper conversation about leadership, failure as education, and why storytelling now matters more than scale. AI, technical debt, ESG—not as buzzwords, but as things leaders actually have to get right.
🎧🧠 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/tth-blueprint-episode-11-ismail-amla
The Long View from the Trongate
A Saturday job at Lennards Shoes. A stockroom key. A hidden music hall where Stan Laurel once performed. Scott reflects on Glasgow’s Panopticon, amateur drama at Windsor Castle, and why restoration might be more radical than innovation. Sometimes sustainability just looks like remembering.
🎭👞 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/the-long-view-from-the-trongate
The Third Half: New Year’s Resolutions
We resolve to stop pretending everything’s a conversation, avoid recycled leadership quotes, ask better questions (not louder ones), and remain cheerfully allergic to bullshit—including our own. Progress is messy. Humans are contradictory. Anyone claiming otherwise probably has a course to sell.
🥃🎯 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/the-third-half-new-years-resolutions
One more thing
Forward this to the colleague who thinks carbon credits are Monopoly money, the mate whose meetings have meetings, and the friend who swears they’ll stick to their resolutions this time.