The Tension
Trade-offs
A lot of life seems to be about trade-offs.
Experimentation / Focus
Enough / Perfect
Altruism / Business
Creativity / Critique
Smart / Casual
Risk
📝 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...
Coaching
Trust, Lock-in and Switching Costs for Coaches, Consultants, and Advisors
This is post is about lock-in.
Let’s get the Urban Dictionary definition out of the way first (it’s
Podcast
Tickets podcast: Marc Lewis on running the world's most awarded advertising school
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Entrepreneurial Endeavours
What do they remember you by?
Positioning, Storytelling and Epitaphs for building a network and career
One of the inevitable obligations for celebrities launching a new
Portfolio Career
When is it hard to do, or easy to finish?
This can often be the case for freelancers doing work for a client.
Hard to do as it’s not
Coaching
5 common myths about coaching
During my journey into coaching, first as a client and then as a coach, I’ve
spent quite a bit
Resources
Workshop Slide Deck (guided): Lifecycles in products, companies, and careers
Introduction
This is a workshop session I designed and facilitated in Summer 2018 (annotated
and abbreviated version, with some classroom
Culture & Insights
On the guestlist: Making season 1 of the Tickets podcast
A few weeks ago I received an email from someone telling me they’d just finished
the whole season of
Podcast
Tickets Podcast: SXSW's Todd Hansen on live event programming and spotting talent & trends
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How-To Guides
My Podcast Gear: recording, editing, and publishing
I’ve learned a lot from creating a podcast series
[https://www.howardgray.net/podcast/]: from asking good questions and
Stage Left
Why Penn & Teller ignored the audience
One of Penn Jillette’s least favourite terms in show business is ’this works’.
It’s easy to let the
Learning, Education & Growth
Navigating Uncertainty: Climbing the Ladder, Going out to Sea
When we are learning something new there are usually some guardrails in place.
We’re learning how to DJ in
Future Of Work
Location Arbitrage
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Go back 15 years or so and this was only a serious day to day consideration if
you were an
Storytelling
It’s hard to tell other people’s stories
You’ve probably heard that person at the bar, telling a story that isn’t theirs.
It’s still funny,
Coaching
Coaching: 15 things that make your heart sing
One of the key components of my coaching certification program is to undertake
peer coaching with other members of the
A.I.
Hiring? Look out for the goalkeeper
This weekend, Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea made no less than 11
saves in the second half of his
Mindsets & Growth
The trouble with saying No
A few years ago Derek Sivers wrote a popular post called Hell Yeah, or No.
[https://sivers.org/hellyeah]
I
Podcast
Tickets Podcast: Adobe's Andrea Rosen on creativity and the future of work
Listen now:
Apple Podcasts
[https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tickets/id1336642615?mt=2&uo=4]|Castbox
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