AI
I built a video game about surviving my own workshop
The enemies are the room: the Skeptic, the Expert, the one on their phone. I built it to demo an AI tool, then everyone wanted to play it instead.
Learning Innovation
Designing experiences that stick and frameworks that work
Learning Innovation
Teaching to Learn
The delivery is ten hours. The design took four people six months. Guess where the learning was.
Learning Innovation
Question Design
One subject added to every curriculum, from five-year-olds to chief executives. Mine would be questions.
Learning Innovation
The Fortune Cookie Test
If your feedback would fit anyone, it's a fortune cookie. Six rules from a few weeks inside the research on feedback.
Learning Innovation
Cereal Is a Soup
A professor told me her students weren't checking whether their evidence held up. So we turned a librarian's checklist into a game, and gave it a research intern who can't tell gold from junk.
Learning Innovation
Just in Time Experience Design
The seven months weren't wasted. Leaving it seven months before showing anyone was.
Learning Innovation
The Game
You can't tell people to pretend something is real. Something in the design has to make them forget to ask.
Learning Innovation
Who explains the thing?
Companies have never had more to explain, and there's no job title for the person who does it.
Learning Innovation
Duck Tales at SXSW London
Making a duck out of Lego is harder than you'd think, especially when you're a Duplo
Learning Innovation
Voiceover for 20,000 people
Reflections on how to write for a global audience
Learning Innovation
The Inside Intro
How to get buy-in during any workshop or live session
Learning Innovation
PlexCon
A $500k retreat in Honduras, a porcupine through the shower ceiling, and a team that bonded for years.
Learning Innovation
Don't Interrupt the Game
Two cultures. Same century. Same invention. Both driven by gamblers who refused to stop playing.
Learning Innovation
Three types of tough crowd
"Tough crowd."
You've heard someone say this after a gig, a presentation, a workshop. But there&
Creative Business
How to run a retrospective that actually works
Six months after a project you can barely remember what you learned. Here's a one-hour framework that fixes that - using conversation, transcription, and AI to capture the insights that usually vanish.
Learning Innovation
Mike Tyson and the accidental punch
The other week I dropped a Mike Tyson quote into a session on adaptive leadership. Didn't think much
Learning, Education & Growth
The thing about teaching A.I. skills
Why most people have it backwards
Creative Business
Christian Bale kept training for a role he didn't have
Christian Bale got fired from American Psycho, and responded by... continuing to prepare for it.
Director Mary Harron wanted him,