Posts

A collection of articles, posts and thoughts since I began writing on the web.



Help your team leave

As an agency leader, founder, manager or anyone who hires: employee loyalty is your ideal. Created in Dall-E Say it with me: no one on your team will be there ... Read it →






Writing effective agency case studies

It’s harder than it looks, and why film posters are a good start © https://www.vintagemovieposters.co.uk/ First, what are case studies for? It’s important to agree on wh... Read it →



Agency learnings: All the P’s

Any lack of updates is directly proportional to how busy life is at the moment. Everything is dialled up to 11, both at work and home. 🇺🇦 Note: It feels incredibly futile and pr... Read it →


Digests: Covid & Commencements

It’s never a dull moment round here. Having had a month between jobs to lay low, I was itching to get back into the swing of things. The month ro... Read it →


Leaving Clearleft (again)

9 years. Or 3,287 days. Or 78,894 hours. Almost a decade spent with one company in Brighton. I went from a fresh, wide-eyed and hungry, ambitious designer to a board member and design ... Read it →


Ruinous Empathy

By all accounts the Kim Scott book ‘Radical Cando(u)r’ has become a bible in Silicon Valley and tech circles. And rightly so, as the need for honest and open... Read it →


Another yearly retro post (2021)

It felt like only a few months ago we wrapped up 2020 with a solid one-fingered salute as we passed to 2021. Similarly I feel the same this year, and truly hope ... Read it →


Digests: Ins & Outs

Ins The past few weeks (months?) have been spent interviewing for new hires at Clearleft. It’s not easy finding the right candidates of late. Due to Covid it seems th... Read it →


Digests: Icebergs & innings

In my binging of recent podcast episodes there was another from the Design Better show that caught my eye 👁 / ear 👂. In the show with Scott Berkun I was reminded of the di... Read it →


Digests: Running & reflections

I’m going to try and stick to week notes for a while. Bear with me 🐻. I’ve been making small, fiddly changes to this website, and found myself going down a ... Read it →


The discovery paradox

Meet Sophie. A business leader at a large organisation, Sophie oversees multiple products. She works with both her in-house product and design teams, as well as external partners. One of ... Read it →


Mentoring, and Imposter syndrome

Imposter Syndrome. That feeling when you doubt yourself, asking whether you’re deserving of your accomplishments. You can't help but feel it's only a matter of time until you’re expo... Read it →


Office Hours

I really like talking to people. Introvert or not, I’m curious by nature and enjoy understanding what people are up to, what they do, and how they do it. So... Read it →


The year that was

What a year. This time last year a friend of ours passed away suddenly, leaving a wife and two young boys without a father. It put things into sharp perspective. ... Read it →


Introspection as an initiative

I find it second nature to question myself. Often I’ll reflect and analyse in an endless loop, eventually introducing doubt into my own decisions. If you’ve ever watched The ... Read it →



Digests: When WFH became WAH

I’m jumping back onto the weeknotes train. Incidentally I’m changing the name to ’digests’. This is to lessen my own anxiety over not posting every week and allows me to wr... Read it →




Weeknotes #5,6,7

A triple whammy of backed-up weeknotes. Sundays are generally far too busy to be able to decompress, wind down and write a comprehensive recap of the past 7 days. I'm not ... Read it →



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