📝 Writing

This is where most of the writing lives. 650+ posts since 2016 - some about learning and creative work, some about whatever I couldn't let go of that week. A restaurant that changed fine dining, a Nintendo executive who saved the company, a Gmail interface for leaked documents...

Portfolio Career

“How did you land the gig?”

A simple question that's anything but.

10 Jul

Adventures… #55: Words at Play

4 lessons in communication from the best in pop music

01 Jul

Stage Left

Face/Off

Here's one way to get people to turn their heads.

28 Jun

Portfolio Career

Standing on set

After he’d shot his scenes for the day, Alec Baldwin would retreat to the comforts of his private trailer.

27 Jun

A story a day keeps the clouds away

I struggle with depression sometimes. Admitting this publicly is probably not good for business. Then again, I’m a human

25 Jun

Mindsets & Growth

Hiring: the voices in-between

I first posted this little riff on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6803739664575434752/], and wanted

25 Jun

Transforming 'average'

This morning I asked Jacinta what she was wearing. It looked fabulous. Something from a boutique perhaps? A well-known designer

24 Jun

The Tension

Two forms of form

It’s a TV show. A podcast. A blog post. A slide deck. If we’re making something, we probably

23 Jun

The Tension

Flexibility & Lock-In

There’s a lot of opportunity for us to work with more flexibility. The last year has proved it. Technology

22 Jun

Entrepreneurial Endeavours

Runway

When going out and doing a new thing, people often talk about ‘runway’. Usually this term refers to the number

21 Jun

Can't write? Then speak

Jerry Seinfeld says writing is the hardest thing in the world. He’s exaggerating, but not all that much. Writing

21 Jun

Mindsets & Growth

Going back to the Old Oak

You know those people who like to talk about how many books they’ve read this year? It’s ok,

18 Jun

In The Neighborhood

The new success

There used to be a cafe in the Lower East Side called El Rey. It was a tiny place, with

17 Jun

Adventures… #54: Windows to the world

Why we need a different kind of aperture, and some of football's hidden clues

03 Jun

A trip to Barcelona, and the hint I didn't take

In 2008 I was working at a digital agency in London. A digital agency creates stuff for brands – usually campaigns,

17 May

Adventures #53: The Momentum Machine

Two valuable lessons from a pair of toddlers, plus career navigation made better and a dose of YOLO

06 May

Best of...

Fitness and Education: from IRL to URL

8 lessons for the new era of learning Give your social media timelines a cursory scroll and it probably won’

22 Apr

Adventures... #52: Through the Jungle

Why we need digital caretakers - not just elite creator commandos. Plus: purchasing power parity, and why bands are disappearing

01 Apr