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How and why to send personal network updates

30/10/2020

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Over the past 2 years I have been sending personal network updates.

​When people or companies come to me for advice, the number one thing I tell them is - start a network update. Keep me updated.

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Reimagining Education For Work

21/9/2020

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I have recently gone through a string of bad hires, a problem we as an organisation have rapidly learned from (set candidates homework people!).

​And as every hire hasn’t worked out I’ve looked back at their resume (CV for the English in the room) and wondered what did I miss?

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Can we talk about failure?

30/8/2020

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For the longest time felt like I didn’t fail at things. I was brought up with the mindset that if something is doable, it cannot be hard. A mindset which compels you to find harder and harder challenges.

That all changed when Flex, the Techstars company I co-founded didn’t work out. It broke me. 
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The case for new words

24/8/2020

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​Is anyone else exhausted by the world yet? The last 4 years have made the news effectively useless as a medium for informing the public, and the populace at large have become so tribally loyal that the main political parties behave like cults.
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The future of transport isn't bikes it's bike locks

28/7/2020

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I keep coming back to the fact that the system (UK/US) is built for cars, and as hard as you try to switch to bikes it ends in tears.
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How Society Works

8/7/2020

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​Upon reading black rednecks and white liberals, and reflecting on the past 4 years of American existence on Independence day, I have started to find signal in my thoughts pointing to some key rules that explain how society works and why it feels so uncomfortable when things are going differently.
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How to work with me in 2020

17/6/2020

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Some pointers on how I operate to save us all some time
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Why the diet tracking that wins will look nothing like the one we have

28/5/2020

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Last week I had an interaction with a founder looking for advice/feedback on the product he was building, that just threw me.

He was building a new diet/food tracking app and the tagline was "The food tracker for food lovers"

I pushed him on its meaning and how with so many existing competitors he could stand out. I literally had no idea what his product did, what it would do for me and why it is better than the current situation.
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We’re counting on you Google, don’t screw this up - (Thoughts on the fitbit acquisition)

24/4/2020

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I’ve wanted to write down some thoughts for quite a while on the news of the fitbit acquisition by google, the current state of play with the Apple watch and how, in my opinion, with the right set up and investment fit bit can be transformed and put the Apple watch to bed.

This seems quite prescient given that today is the Apple watches 5th birthday and this week my Apple watch app Stretchy reached 3000 downloads (been out for 3 weeks).

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Memories As A Product Revisited

2/3/2020

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Since I wrote Marriage, a 60th Birthday and memories as a product, This idea that we don’t get to say the things we want to or that we don’t get to re-live the best of memories enough has stuck in my head.​

​At the turn of the new year I decided that instead of thinking a product into existence I would hack on an Airtable and try and build my own archive.
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