This morning I popped over to the John L. Tishman Auditorium at The New School on New York’s 5th Avenue. It was another edition of the immensely popular Creative Mornings lecture series, and this month’s guest speaker was the founder of Charity:Water, Scott Harrison. First was a slice of delicious…
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The Kitchen
There’s a new kitchen opening up in town. Some ingredients are grown in-house – simple but juicy tomatoes, colourful bell peppers and a handful of flavourful herbs. Other items like organic eggs, crunchy kale, and succulent shallots need bringing in from experts. The kitchen has built a small but trusted…
Battle Scars
Every battle is different, as is each person’s experience of it. Every battle leaves its scars. Sometimes the scars are visible, other times they’re not. The battle may be oppression, or harassment, or abuse. A battle of love, or loss. It may be about moving up or moving on. It…
How to build your network in a new city, country or culture
12 ways to get going when you find yourself in some place new Moving around the world to live and work is becoming easier than ever. There are numerous factors and trends enabling and fuelling this shift: low-cost airlines, remote work, broader education access, open borders (sometimes…), an increase in…
Introducing Coffee Notes: A template for better meetings
A big part of my discovery mission living in a new city was meeting people for coffee. A lot of people, and a lot of coffee. I quickly realized two things: Several topics and questions came up repeatedly Preparing well led to better outcomes I started using a simple template…
Beyond the 1 hour meeting
The 1 hour slot has long been the default meeting duration – whether team gatherings, introductory coffees, or job interviews. While the times are indeed a changing, the 1 hour slot is largely still the default setting. Here’s another method to try when you’re meeting a fellow human being. 20,…
Workshop Slide Deck (guided): Lifecycles in products, companies, and careers
Introduction This is a workshop session I designed and facilitated in Summer 2018 (annotated and abbreviated version, with some classroom exercises and notes included for other educators to reference). Here’s the Slideshare version, although this annotated one is far better of course 😉 I created this as part of the growth…
Navigating Uncertainty: Climbing the Ladder, Going out to Sea
When we are learning something new there are usually some guardrails in place. We’re learning how to DJ in the safety of our bedroom, not headlining Barclays Center. We’re committing our code into a test environment, not straight into the App Store. Our Spanish conversation practice is with a peer…
Location Arbitrage
Go back 15 years or so and this was only a serious day to day consideration if you were an international trader looking to take advantage of fluctuations in currencies and demand for particular goods. For the rest of us, it may have come up as something to think about…
Beyond The Happy Meal: products to transcend generations
Regular readers will know I’m a fan of the author and broadcaster Steven Johnson. I also admit I’m rarely an early adopter (as frustrating as this can sometimes be), and in Johnson’s case I only discovered his work via his TV series How We Got To Now which was broadcast…