Year: 2014

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    The Idea Index

    I've just returned from couple of weeks break on which I read a couple of great books (more on that to come) but kind of wish I'd come across this great little life-hack before I went. In this Tim Ferris interview with the prolific Maria Popova on the theme of writing, workflow and workarounds, Maria explains…

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    How Google Works

    How Google Works from Eric Schmidt I've bought but yet to read Eric Schmidt's new book on How Google Works. In the meantime comes this handy slideshare summarising some of the key points. Lots to take from it, and lots of good validation for many of the things that I consult with companies about and…

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    Jobs to be Done

    I liked Martin Weigel’s take on how a more appropriate metaphor for modern brands is perhaps less about the human personality characteristics that we've long tended to attribute them and more about thinking of brands as software: "Brands can now can remember what we like, and what we bought. They can anticipate when we need…

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    This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links

    Here are my favourite links of the past week, as curated by Fraggl: This latest essay from Paul Graham (co-ounder of Y-combinator) on how counter-intuitive startups can be, and taken from his guest lecture at Stanford, is an excellent read. Also from the same class, comes this great video of Peter Thiel's lecture on business strategy, competition and monopoly Snapchat murders…

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    Projects

    It’s good to always have several obsessions and projects on the go. Here are a few of mine: Fraggl Fraggl is the brand new Twitter curation app built by me, and the smart folk at AdaptiveLab. It sets out to curate the ten best links from strategy and advertising from the past 24 hours and deliver a set…

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    The Quartz Curve

    It’s somewhat fashionable right now to believe that digital, mobile and social media consumption are universally reducing attention spans down to nanoseconds but whilst consumption patterns are changing, I think we’re far from seeing the death or even decline of long-form content. The 'Quartz curve' is an interesting way of thinking about this, and one that…

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    Post of the Month – September 2014 – The Winner

    Delighted to announce that Meg Pickard has won this month's vote with her excellent Community Development Playbook. Well done Meg – you're entered into the hall of fame. Thanks to everyone who took part.

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    Post Of The Month – September 2014 – The Vote

    Thanks for the nominations. So this month's vote is between: The Community Development Playbook by Meg Pickard Too Much Math, Too Little Meaning by Rishad Tobaccowala A Rant About Customer-Centricity by me What we Talk About When we Talk About What we Talk About When we Talk About Making by Tim Maly Advertising Doesn't Exist from Dave Trott What…

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    You Are Not a Storyteller

    Lots to like about this short film featuring Stefan Sagmeister debunking what's wrong with the whole 'storytelling' thing. I may have been guilty of a bit of this in the past myself but he's right – there's 'storytelling', and then there's storytelling. HT Kirsty Angus for the link

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    Post of the Month – September 2014 – Nominations

    Time to open up nominations for Post of the Month. As always I have a short starting list below but please do add to these with any good posts that you've read over the past month that you thought were particularly good. Thanks to John for already nominating my own post on customer-centricity, and I've…

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