Big Brother Africa and an alfresco Guinness with Colin Charles
Today I had an inspiring catch up with an old friend at the Tate members bar – a place with surely one of the capital’s greatest views. Colin Charles is currently Executive Creative Director at...
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The Audience Oath
Reading Mark Earl’s book Herd has really got me thinking. One of my favourite thoughts of his is about how we enlist people to interact directly to influence one another (for instance in an audience –...
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Crouch End’s Coffee Bubble
It’s not often that my local London area, Crouch End, gets into the Guardian and the Daily Mail in the same week. In fact, other than press shots of Shaun of the Dead or Peep Show, I can’t remember a...
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What LinkedIn Endorsements say about you
LinkedIn’s new(ish) endorsement feature has been around long enough for me to have a stab at working out what they mean, what value they add and whether they’re a useful or useless feature. It’s worth...
View ArticleWhat I learned when I learned to make an omelette
How do you know when you’ve learned something? I mean, not just attended the class and diligently taken notes, but truly absorbed what you’ve been taught? Remembering back to something that happened to...
View ArticleHorse meat and thieving dogs who lick where you can’t
Will Hutton’s excellent article in the Guardian goes some way to showing the link between the market-craven political ideology of our Conservative led government (which, to be fair, the UK’s last...
View ArticleNo more sobbing in the self help section
In the last couple of years I’ve done five things that have helped me find a clearer direction for my life. I wanted to share them with you. Some are easier to do than others. Some might not be for...
View ArticleOut of my shed (10 rules for home workers, learned the hard way)
After the best part of six years, I’ve moved out of my home-office at the end of my garden, to share an office with the very lovely Fivefootsix. As a result, I feel qualified to share what I’ve learned...
View ArticleWhy strategy doesn’t work (and what to do about it)
When it come to choosing work, I select projects by their capacity to appeal to my heart more than my head. This means that I’ve been lucky enough to do a really exciting variety of projects, and I’ve...
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Developing a thinking toy: Content vs Interface
Developing new thinking for clients can often mean me beavering away, honing and polishing an idea until it shines with a high-gloss sheen, before sharing it with anyone else. But in the spirit of...
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