Tag: Blog
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You have been tweaking the same thing for longer than you care to admit. You keep second-guessing it, adjusting, pulling back, adjusting again. You can’t leave it alone. Is this you? What if the problem isn’t with your creation? What if the real problem is that there is nobody around who understands enough to tell…
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“He’s a dreamer! “This is how my primary school teacher described me when I was 9 years old. I didn’t know at the time, but the dreaming came from boredom. For a long time, many of us have internalised labels that are meant to manage us. We learn to tamp it down, to focus, to…
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There’s a thread running through the majority of these memories, bear with me, you’ll see. First memory I’ll mention: my bike from my father. It had state-of-the-art spokes, the brand was Skyway, and it is, remarkably, the only gift from him I can remember. Someone in the neighbourhood was so jealous of that bike it…
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The case for building your personal brand before you need it. A book published before Google changed everything There’s a book that’s marked me above many. Brand You by Tom Peters, published in 1999. In it, Peters made a prediction that sounded almost radical at the time: that the era of the lifelong company employee…
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There’s a particular pleasure in the early stage of an idea. The designing. The mapping. The hours you spend arranging things in your head until they feel ready to exist in the world. I know that pleasure well. A little too well, as it turns out. Because here’s what I eventually had to admit to…
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Let me ask you something: when was the last time you questioned why you work the way you do? Not whether to work. We all know we have to eat. But the form your work takes. The career path you chose, or perhaps the one that chose you. Have you ever stopped to wonder whether…
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I’ve decided to stop being a slave to the numbers. For too long, I’ve checked my website and social media metrics with a regularity bordering on the compulsive. It feels like I’ve fallen into the classic trap of intermittent reinforcement; the same “variable ratio” hook that keeps a gambler at the table. Does it feel…
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I don’t think my experience was unique, but I do wonder if it’s becoming a thing of the past. Bear with me; it’ll make sense in a moment. I grew up during the rise of manga like Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, and I deeply identified with the heroes and their superpowers. I kid…
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There’s a lot I wish I was better at. But to pick one thing in particular, I wish I was better at practical skills. It probably stems from how I feel about them. It’s a combination of them boring me, meaning I’m not interested in them, which then leads to me not learning enough to…
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Picture the scene. Paris, France, a very long time ago. My toddler self managed to find his way onto the balcony of our flat. I don’t know exactly which floor we lived on, but in my memory, it looked like maybe it was the fourth floor. Edit: Checked with mum, it was the second floor.…