The things we've left behind
Flora and I discussing the things we won't miss about advertising.
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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,