In Praise of Badly Formatted Word Documents

My early career was in software testing – and a useful thing the craft gave me had nothing to do with testing software. On what your work leaves behind, and why writing things down is how you find the thread.

How I Manage What I Learn

Collecting isn't learning. A personal knowledge system — Capture, Curate, Crunch, Contribute — for turning what you read into what you do.

meeting notes Communication (Wiring) Fieldnotes

Let them eat PowerPoint

A field note on the deck that becomes the point. And brioche.

Learning & Practice (Flywheel) Leadership and Work in Practice Podcast

The Skills You Learn on a Market Stall

What trade skills, commercial awareness and practical judgement can teach us about turning ideas into value.

Communication (Wiring) studio Department of Interesting Things

The talk that ate the afternoon

Here's how to structure a talk with a two-pound stack of index cards - plus the full step-by-step method, free to read in a complimentary edition of The Department of Interesting Things.

Idea to Value (Physics) Leadership and Work in Practice

What We're Really Managing

Most organisations think they're managing projects, products or people. But what if the thing being managed is the idea — and everything else is infrastructure?