2020 has, at first glance, not been a vintage year for social interaction. Covid-19 thrives on the social contact on which humans depend, so it has had to be throttled. […]
I recently gave a talk and did a Q&A at the Institute for Practitioners in Advertising. It was fun to explore the ideas in the book from the perspective of […]
For obvious reasons it has been a good year for reading. And I set out at the beginning of 2020 to be somewhat more systematic about what I read. To […]
It was nice to see the book get a mention from Gillian Tett in her FT weekend article on the new habits we’re forming in Covid-times.
Management by walking around the office is a familiar concept. But rarely do bosses of major organisations take things to another level and walk in the shoes of their teams […]
I enjoyed talking to Tim Fleming, CEO of Future Visual, a Brighton-based company that specialise in the application of AR/VR to enable business to collaborate, educate and train their team. […]
I like this short post from Cal Newport’s blog on the pleasures of manual or embodied work. The post is relevant to my book in that explores the nature of […]
Drowning amongst the many often excellent pieces about the new normal, how to think about pandemics and what this means for business it was only last week that a certain melancholy enveloped […]
This passage from David Epstein’s Range seems especially relevant right now, and for almost everyone in any profession: “There are no tools that cannot be dropped, reimagined or repurposed in […]
I’m typically sceptical of ‘life lessons’ like this. However, this list of 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice, by technology writer Kevin Kelly is particularly good. The purpose of a habit […]
Talk of the ‘mood’ of the British people and their attitudes towards easing lockdown and get back to normal throws up interesting questions about what mood is, and how we […]
This little thread of posts from an Insead professor, Gioapiero Petrigliero really caught my attention. It nailed so well what is so lacking in virtual communication and video conferencing. It’s […]
Back in 2016 the very talented Charlotte Hollands was commissioned by EPIC to do a profile of me. Instead of writing an account of my career she decided to draw […]
Over at Stripe Partners we’ve shot a film of our studio process. Studios are our way of ensuring that the benefits of an ethnographic approach to developing understanding are shared […]
Some thoughtful commentary on job hunting by Amy Santee, a UX researcher based in USA provoked me to dig out this blog post from 2005. I wrote it when shutting […]
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up […]
“It is not difficult to see why we are so keen to widen our knowledge and why we are so little concerned to increase our capacity to love – knowledge […]
When I came to write up my Ph.D thesis about TV in India, mid 90s, I soon realised that the moral nervousness about the medium in India was the playing […]
Interesting read from Ethan Zuckerman exploring the tendency for the figure of the lone genius to triumph over teams and collaborators in accounts of innovation. Two excerpts: “It doesn’t lessen […]