The pros and cons of digging up kings
We had our first Interesting Assemble on Wednesday. The extraordinary Dr Helen Castor joined us to expand on her talk from Interesting in 2016. Fantastic questions from the assembled audience which Helen fielded with deep expertise. Dave 'Funkypancake' Simpson is doing the next one, on October 29th. It&
The Vegetarian, the Talking Heads and wind
Another episode of I Saw This And Thought Of You has hit the airwaves with the esteemed Julia Whitney. Come for the RISD nostalgia, stay for the metrological eyebrow raising.
Webmentioning
I came across this post from Ben G and thought I'd try to do something similar. If I've done things right then there will be something at the bottom of this post inviting you to like or comment on bluesky and mastodon. If you could like
The BT Tower, the AI and the planning application
MCR and their associated advisors and consultants have submitted their planning application for the conversion of the BT Tower into a luxury hotel. The esteemed Dan Hill and I discussed it at length on YouTube. One of the things we talked about is the likely effect LLMs etc will have
Interesting Assemble II - the return of the funkypancake
The first Interesting Assemble is a week today. Tickets are still available and still free. And, excitingly, we can now announce a very special guest for Interesting Assemble II - the return of Dave 'Funkypancake' Simpson. Old school interneters will remember Dave's work with enormous affection. He
You should be reading Strat_Scraps
I was a bit afraid that talking to Alex Morris would be a disappointment. I've been reading Strat_Scraps for years and I've loved it all that time. But part of the thrill is how eliptical it is. It's a compendium of strategic detritus
The things we've left behind
Flora and I discussing the things we won't miss about advertising.
How to stop having ideas
As I become more 'senior' I realise that the biggest contribution I can make to my team is to stop bothering them with my ideas. Here's why: Ideas are bad Ideas are incredibly easy to have. People are having them all the time. I remember in
Streaming in the rain
It has become an (almost) daily habit for me to get up early, to find someone to sit with a coffee, to watch the world go by, and to play some music. And to stream it on YouTube. I like the imagined/possibility of an audience. Yesterday's outing
Maggie Appleton on planning with agents
Thoughtful. And a great way to 'present' a 'presentation' "Humans are not efficient readers. We can read about 240 words a minute, and an agent can write about 4,500, which is 19 times faster than we can read. So there’s a huge mismatch
The Zero-Asset God and the broken mini dramas
I apologise for starting with Eno but he's like a stopped clock with extra hands; quite often right. He once wrote this: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video,