Articles

Why rock the boat?

The status quo is here for a reason. It's best left unquestioned, to follow the rules, to stay inside the lines, to do as you're told. The status quo is...

Snipers gonna snipe

If you make a statement of opinion, snipers gonna snipe. If you dare to stir things up a bit, snipers gonna snipe. If you do things differently, snipers gonna snipe....

Why the world needs more you

Whilst researching my last article, I discovered that someone's written a book about how to think like Steve Jobs. Which goes by the grand title of...What Would Steve Jobs Do?...

Why the 25,000 views my last article got in 24 hours isn’t the metric I care about

Please excuse the humblebrag/linkbait headline that’s gotten you here. Not bad huh? Keep reading though, because I have ulterior motives other than patting myself on the back.  Let’s rewind to...

I never finish anyth

Why it's time to wake up and smell the hard work.

In conversation with designer-turned-writer Paul Jarvis

Writing doesn’t come easy — and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.  Canadian designer Paul Jarvis is one designer who has found a way with words, writing for the...

The thought experiment that changes the molecular composition of your body

I’ve written before about meditation and my attempts to build mindfulness into my daily habits, but often when talking about it with friends they dismiss it as something wishy-washy, or as something...

Start small.

Big is overrated. Big is a huge leap from nothing. Big is a mental road block that’s holding you back. And at the other end of the scale… Small is...

Why names rarely match up with faces on movie posters

This has been bugging me for, oh I don’t know, a decade or so. I thought perhaps it was a running joke in the movie industry, like the Wilhelm Scream,...

Don’t consume, create.

Often I find myself lying in bed first or last thing, in a repeating loop of checking various emails and apps. For some reason I think I'll find answers there,...