Makers Hate Meetings and Managers Can’t Live Without Them
Are you a maker or a manager? In most companies, you can broadly categorise people into those who create (makers) and those who coordinate (managers). While this isn’t a perfect divide, most people in an organisation often lean more toward one side than the other, in...
Thought Nuggets || April || 2025
Really interesting (to me) ‘Thought Nuggets’ I’ve read, watched or listened to this past month. Things that helped me think a little harder, and learn a little more. The Curious Story of an 8 Year Old, a Traffic Cone, and an Old Man It’s all too easy...
My Newest Friendship Is Ruining The Planet
I read an article by Joe Wilkins on futurism.com yesterday that pointed out that my latest friendship is contributing to the destruction of the planet. I was taken back, and am now making some adjustments in order to reverse the damage I’m doing. In my world I...
It’s Friday, But Sunday’s Coming – S.M. Lockridge
The Power Of The Spoken Word For 2.2 billion people around the world, the Easter weekend is a central focus of their faith. For me, on Easter Friday, shortly after I’ve woken up, a particular 3 minute section of a sermon jumps into my head. It’s by S.M. Lockridge....
Thought Nuggets || March || 2025
Really interesting (to me) ‘Thought Nuggets’ I’ve read, watched or listened to this past month. Things that helped me think a little harder, and learn a little more. Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says |...
Who’s Doing What To Minimise Meetings?
Since the very first human beings bumped into each other, meetings have been an essential part of our survival. Important conversations around growing stuff, hunting stuff, protecting ourselves from the people in the next valley, not stealing each other’s partners and...
One Way To Tell If I Really Need Another Meeting?
According to a Harvard Business Review study executives (I imagine Americans) spend around 23 hours per week in meetings (3 x 8 hour working days). That’s up from less than 10 hours in the 1960’s [insert shock and horror face emoji here]. Whichever part of...
The Curious Story of an 8 Year Old Boy, a Traffic Cone, and an Old Man
If you’d been walking along the same river as I was this week, you may have spotted a 55 year old man walking his dogs, lugging a bright orange traffic-cone home. If you had seen him and asked why he was carrying it, I’d have been curious as to his...
Invisibles – Human Superheroes Changing The World
For years now I’ve been aware of a grouping of people I label, ‘The Invisibles’. I haven’t met them and I don’t know who they are, but I know they’re around, because over and over again, I’ve seen their work as I go about my...
