Adventures… #54: Windows to the world
Why we need a different kind of aperture, and some of football's hidden clues
📝 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...
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,
Adventures #53: The Momentum Machine
Two valuable lessons from a pair of toddlers, plus career navigation made better and a dose of YOLO
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’
Adventures... #52: Through the Jungle
Why we need digital caretakers - not just elite creator commandos. Plus: purchasing power parity, and why bands are disappearing
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
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