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The Circuit
The challenges — and the importance — of being out on the road, in the middle,
on the circuit as a creative
📝 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...
Learning Innovation
Are you running a meetup or a workshop?
The corridor of uncertainty, and not getting what you came for.
A few weeks ago I ran a pilot of
Learning Innovation
Back to business school: the new case study
Almost every form of school and education is getting questioned, queried,
unbundled, and rethought.
The same is happening in business
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Freelancer to Entrepreneur: The Forest, The Mountains, and the Water
Imagine a landscape. It has a forest on one side and a mountain range on the
other. The two are
The Tension
Labels In, Labels Out
We’ve always had labels in one way or another.
First, the label tended to be the same as the
Future Of Work
The Music Industry's 73%
This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the top 1% of musicians
accounted for 60% of concert revenues
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Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Going Solo? You’re still in the Rat Race
Many of us strike out as consultants, freelancers, entrepreneurs, or artists to
escape the rat race – to get away from
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Why we need to get rid of ideas
On this week’s episode of his Akimbo podcast, Seth Godin answers a listener
question about focusing – more specifically, how
Stage Left
Becoming a wizard
Regular readers may know two of my favourite podcasts are ’The Moment’ with
Brian Koppelman, and Seth Godin’s ’Akimbo’
Battle Scars
Empty Tank
On June 1st 2015 I broke out alone again.
This month marks the end of the fourth year as an
Coaching
Coaching for creative inspiration
A key component of a coaching certification program is to get coaching.
Not ‘get’ as in ‘understand’, but ‘get’ as
Adventures #29: Darwin discoveries, deep fakes, and deep space
Coaching
Overrated Mentors, Underrated Coaches
Mentoring and coaching often get thrown into one bucket. On the surface they
sound pretty similar; practices that help people
Mindsets & Growth
The Rotation
Menlo Innovations is a software company based in Ann Arbor.
They’ve become well known for staying true to their
The Tension
Ghosted: from URL to IRL
This week the video conferencing company Zoom announced its IPO.
In the Forbes profile of its founder Eric Yuan, this
The Tension
Two Tunnels
Imagine your primary area of focus as a tunnel you’re digging. You may be
digging into clay, sand, soil,
Mindsets & Growth
™
Trademarks exist to identify the origin of some kind of good or service – the
origin being the business that serves
Stage Left
Keep it boring
> Wanna know what kills more police than bullets and liquor? Boredom. They just
can’t handle that shit. You