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  • 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…

  • In the Beginning, there was Blame

    The man answered, “The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”- Genesis 3:12 Whenever you find yourself in a situation where you might look stupid, wrong, flawed or generally…

  • Police in plain clothes

    A desire to understand is wisdom;desiring a result is greed. Sayadaw U Tejaniya It’s June 20, 2022. As usual, I’d arrived at my therapist’s office in a rush. We talk about feelings. Feelings I’ve…

  • Light pollution

    “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” – Joseph Campbell “We have to acknowledge that we hate those things and only those things in the world that we first hate…

  • Breaking the habit

    We learned from a new angle just how wondrous a thing the brain is. A one-litre, liquid-cooled, three-dimensional computer. Unbelievable processing power, unbelievably compressed, unbelievable energy efficiency, no overheating. The whole thing running on…