Year: 2020
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Post of the Month – October 2020 – Nominations
Well there may be counting for another (possibly more important) vote going on at the moment but let us not forget nominations for another (important in its own way) vote – the one for Post of the Month. As usual I have some starting nominations listed below but please do add to these with posts…
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Learning from Football
I really liked this post from Chris Dillon on what football can teach us. He makes several great points talking about how great teams are the product of how the component parts (the players) collectively work together and how you can't read the properties of a collective simply from its individual elements. A great team…
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Post of the Month – September 2020 – The Winner
Thanks for the votes everyone. Happy to say that Craig Ainsley's post on The Normalisation of Overworking in Advertising won through. There was also a stong showing for Alex Murrell's great post on the The Forecasting Fallacy. So well done to Craig, who joins the hall of fame, and my thanks again to all those…
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Post of the Month – September 2020 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Our vote this month is between: The Normalisation of Overworking in Advertising by Craig Ainsley The Forecasting Fallacy by Alex Murrell To Win Short-form Video, Look Away from the Creator by Shreya Sudarshana The Beatles Theory of Creative Career Management by Rob Schwartz The Entertainment Value Curve by Ravi Mehta And you can vote…
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Post of the Month – September 2020 – Nominations
It's time to open up nominations for Post of the Month. This vote is here to recognise great (non-professional) industry writing and blogging so if there's a post that you've read over the past which you particularly enjoyed do nominate it by sending me the link direct or leaving it in the comments below. As…
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On Technology Disappearing as it Matures
There's an idea that has been around for a while about how as significant new technologies mature the more they disappear – as in they become less obvious or we simply stop noticing that they are there. I remember the concept being talked about in the planning blogging community back in the day. Back in…
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Post of the Month – August 2020 – The Winner
Thanks everyone for the votes. Happy to announce that the winner of this month's vote is Zoe Scaman with her fascinating post including the slides from her talk on the future of fandoms. Well done to Zoe. You join the Post of the Month hall of fame. Do look out for next month's nominations and…
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Post of the Month – August 2020 – The Vote
My thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Scream If You Want to Go Faster! Why Government Technology Needs (Much) Better Governance by Rachel Coldicutt Brand is a Strategy by Faris Yakob Lessons on Victory from Mikel Arteta by Sue Unerman The Future of Fandoms by Zoe Scaman TikTok and the Sorting Hat by Eugene…
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Post of the Month – August 2020 – Nominations
Gosh that came around quickly. It's time again to open nominations for Post of the Month, so if there is something that you've read over the past weeks that you thought was particularly good please do send me the link/nomination direct or leave it in the comments below. As usual I have a short starting…
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Complexity Bias, and Looking for Answers in the Wrong Places
I was thinking the other day about complexity bias, which Shane Parrish has described as: ‘…our tendency to look at something that is easy to understand, or look at it when we are in a state of confusion, and view it as having many parts that are difficult to understand.’ Counter-intuitively we often prefer to…