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  • Your services are no longer required

    Will AI take my job? This is a question that has been hanging over many of us this year.Will AI replace me? Will I no longer be needed? What will I do? Many of…

  • Drawer shoving

    “The one thing that our unconscious will not tolerate is evasion of responsibility.” – Robert A. Johnson To-do lists are a simple tool, invented to get stuff done. You write down the item that…

  • Yes? What else?

    It’s a shame we take our thoughts so seriously. They distract and pull us away from what’s actually going on. They sneakily absorb our attention without us noticing. Spiritual teacher Osho goes further, calling…

  • Designing like a spreadsheet

    Nudge. Change position. Change label. Undo. Redo. You hit a wall. You think about deleting everything and starting from scratch.  Then, an idea hits!  You race after it, leaving a stream of frames and…

  • Is this co-design?

    When we set out to co-design, we’re usually intending to get clear on a strategy or approach, find alignment across different groups and discover some new ideas together. If we’re putting together a formal…

  • Swimming under pressure

    I’m lap swimming, like I usually do on a Monday evening. It’s a coached squad and there are six or seven others in my lane. We’re meant to swim about five seconds apart, but…

  • Totally and seriously

    Imagine you have to get on stage dressed as a giant carrot and get chased around by a guy dressed as a rabbit. You’ve got a job. You pay the bills. You just don’t…

  • The Slow and Painful way to Effective Speaking

    I’ve tried lots of things to make my presentations better. I’ve read countless books and articles about narrative, storytelling and communication. I’ve learned about frameworks like The Pyramid Principle and I’ve attended Dale Carnegie courses to improve…

  • Working well with others

    “A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.”— David Foster Wallace Whether you are making shoes, advertisements about shoes or…