Stage Left
The resident earworm: west on 27th
Much of it was cleaning windows, picking up sandwiches, and writing mailing
labels. But it was the most impactful job
📝 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...
Stage Left
As good as it gets
It’s easy to forget that even Hollywood legends had to start somewhere.
There was once a time when Jack
Learning Innovation
8 shifts in the future of learning & education
Over the past few weeks (ok, months) I’ve been working on a big article on how
fitness and learning
Podcast
Under the Current Podcast: #13 - Sims Foster
the future of the hospitality industry, and doing business for local good
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The Tension
Two types of con game
The first type of con game is part of our lexicon. This confidence game involves
a trickster building up the
Learning Innovation
Thoughts on How and Why to start a Cohort Based Course in 2021
A couple of weeks ago I attended a session on app-du-jour Clubhouse. It was
entitled “How and Why to start
Adventures... #51: Mise-en-place
Keeping it real with a traveling chef. Plus: Stevie Wonder's hot streak, Flemish drug distributors, and electronic music pioneers
Podcast
Under the Current Podcast: #12 - Jonathan Stark
funding the mission, and why marketing can drive us mad
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Podcast
Under the Current Podcast: #11 - Olaf Boswijk
building spaces for arts and culture, finding new perspectives on our natural
world, and the importance of staying naive
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Podcast
Under the Current Podcast: #10 - Dmitry Koltunov
building communities in startups and hiphop, and the freedom of getting things
wrong
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Mindsets & Growth
Finding your edge
Everyone says you’ve got to find your edge. Seek out your competitive advantage.
Maybe that’s not what’s
Podcast
Under the Current Podcast: #9 - Steve Bodow
writing and producing, working in sprints, and overcoming procrastination
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Adventures #50: What just happened
Why the next hot job is a new flavour of Producer; finding the right fit with your audience; and Nike goes open-source
Podcast
Under the Current Podcast: #8 - Rob Fitzpatrick
books as product design, reframing marketing, and business partner marriages
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Mindsets & Growth
Now Obvious
There’s a joy that comes with hindsight. So much so, a popular phrase
encapsulates it.
Hindsight lets us recognise
How-To Guides
How to find portfolio/audience fit
You’ve probably heard of Product/Market Fit. It’s widely seen as the holy grail
for just about every
Future Of Work
“This call may be recorded for quality & training purposes”
For a long time, this kind of automation was incredibly expensive and complex to
set up.
Then, for most companies,
Podcast
Under the Current Podcast: #7 - Georgina Wilson-Powell
building an ethical media business, creating support structures as a solo
founder, and recovering from failure
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