The inevitable Honda one

Relevant links! Adam Morgan's eatbigfish podcast with Dave and Jeffre.

Let's go round again

One of my favourite moments of the year. I look at the calendar. Pick a date, Ask Anne if she's got anything on. Do a bit of googling to make sure there's nothing important happening and email the Conway Hall. They send me back some forms.

Notes and links - 2 August 2026

"Slop wins because it conforms to neat narrative arcs that fulfill our desires for cohesive stories: At crime scenes, children make the best witnesses because they simply report back what they saw rather than editorializing into a natural story arc. The adult brain is hardwired to eliminate cognitive dissonance

The power of unread copy

Makething the man

"One garment became central to that image. The navy Howick jacket Burnham wore during the Tier 3 dispute in October 2020 is now held by the People’s History Museum. Its catalogue records it plainly as a Howick VI coat, bought from House of Fraser. Yet within days British

People, work, matters and things

Talking with Dan on an internet screen. Friday. Come and say hello How People Work, Live! ... with Russell Davies - Dan HonHow People Work, Live! -- the live show about how to people, based on the How People Work workshop that helps teams deliver better, faster.Join Dan, a very special guest,

Toilets, marketing and the enforced humility of writing down your plan

Inspired by this excellent post from Tom Stafford. "Just imagining that you might be wrong is enough to create demonstrable benefits to problem solving and estimation, which has been variously called “the wisdom of crowds on single player mode” and “dialectical bootstrapping”. I like to think that the imaginary

Start with a greeting, and end with love

Giles and I were swapping postcards a while ago. Middle-aged affectation but fun. And it struck me that a Haudoo on 'how to write a letter' would be a good idea. I suggested that to Giles and, because he's a genius, he wrote a letter

Interesting etc

At the last Interesting I threatened to come up with a plan to do 'other things'. I love the feeling at Interesting and it'd be nice to have it happen at other times and places, I've never quite worked out how to do this

Our first theatrical production

Arthur's written a play. And it's being performed. And it's quite short. You should come!

Musicking, Cavaliers and rooms full of teeth

The always stimulating Tom Whitwell was kind enough to put up with me asking him for some recommendations...

The London Review of TikTok's - 19th July

Cycling corner: @jbillinson if you’re watching the tour de france this year, keep an eye out for a very funny form of cheating: the sticky bottle #cycling #TourDeFrance #sports #bike #sportstiktokcontest ♬ C.B.Rhumba by Sage Guyton and Jeremy Wakefield - SpongeRadio @blakeoftoday I couldn’t get this out of

Keep it on your phone

Fredkin's; the best paradox

Here's an explanation for why nothing gets done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin%27s_paradox Here's a shorter version

Thank your authors

I've had a couple of really nice notes in the last couple of months. People getting in touch to say they liked something I'd written. This is an incredibly pleasant feeling and it doesn't happen very often. And every time it happens I'

Make more slides

I did a presentation for the good people of GDS the other week. I really enjoyed it. The presenting and the questions and all that but also, just the craft and the opportunity to think about an argument and to make some new slides. Neil is right. I want to

One weird trick

A story I've told a thousand times, but still useful, I suspect.

More Do

I had a phase of making little videos about the things in the Do book, and then I forgot. So here we go again:

What are you working on?

Notes and links - 28th June 2026

"Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides" The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AILeaked audio from Accenture says

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Findings (may not work)

I posted to TikTok every day for a year and I learned nothing

Actually, that's not true. This is what I actually learned: 1. Find a topic, 'a niche', you'll probably have to experiment a lot to find the one that works. Then - only post about that topic. Experiment a lot to find the style/tone/approach