Learning Innovation
Why Learning Beats Education (and Why It Matters to You)
Education mandates; learning invites. Discover the key differences and why flipping education into learning unlocks serious growth and fun.
A.I.
Making sense of AI - what's useful, what's hype, and what it means for creative work.
How-To Guides
How the creator of 'Peaky Blinders' uses one word to unlock new worlds
Picture this: A working-class kid from Birmingham, youngest of 7, no silver spoon in sight. Fast forward, and he'
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Two essentials for building distributed teams
Jeff Bezos once said to bet on things that won't change. Here's one: talent is everywhere.
Future Of Work
Tyler Cowen's two questions to unearth hidden talent
How do you find talent with a spark? Can you predict who’s going to be most creative, energetic, curious, or successful? Here are two unusual questions the economist Tyler Cowen asks to figure it out…
Reflections & Stories
My one piece of advice for new parents
If I could give my pre-parent self one piece of advice it would be this: deal with loss.
Let’s
Independent Paths
The wallet, the CV, and me
A simple but effective method to design any kind of creative career.
Future Of Work
Two unusual questions to find talent with a spark
How do you find talent with a spark? Can you predict who’s going to be most creative, energetic, curious,
Future Of Work
The secret of long-lasting businesses
Company life expectancies are reducing - dramatically. One secret of those that live longest? They focus their energies on the
A.I.
When your AI presentation needs bug spray
Standing in the gardens of a mind-boggling eco-architectural project outside Mexico City, talking about AI's future and technology's ancient past. Not your typical speaking gig.
Coaching
The (secret) secret of Manchester City's success
Why every team needs goalkeeper #3
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Deep in the hole at SXSW
“Even now, no one’s willing to talk about failure”.
I heard this from a few people at SXSW this
Future Of Work
A new type of job - straight from the past
Disney has it. So does Levi’s. IBM definitely do. Stripe probably will soon. Even Theranos has one (albeit an
How-To Guides
How to use Figma for building online courses
Over the last few months I’ve been using Figma as the design engine for building our new online course.
Portfolio Career
Full Stackers
I've long believed in the value of cultivating "Lowercase Skills" - being a an uppercase Strategist
Independent Paths
The unspoken layoffs
The thing no one talks about when it comes to layoffs.
Startups
3 learnings from validating a new startup idea
A trio of counter-intuitive learnings from the early stages of sculpting a new venture
Startups
Our new approach to startup validation
Einstein said if he had an hour to solve a challenge he’d spend 55 minutes on the problem, 5
How-To Guides
Email Intros: The Double Opt-In (revisited)
How’s your inbox? Mine’s… ok. But a bunch of emails are festering. I don’t quite know what