Category: inspiration
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Persistence
In between meetings yesterday I went to look at the David Bailey exhibition, curated by the man himself at the National Portrait Gallery (which was wonderful) and in one of the displays typed onto a piece of card was this quote: "Nothing
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iDoneThis
Reading some more around the organisational culture at Buffer, I came across iDoneThis. It's a simple productivity app that (as you can see above) sends staff a reminder email each evening asking what they did that day. The next day, staff get
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Slow Life from Daniel Stoupin on Vimeo. Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: “‘Slow’ marine animals show their secret life under high magnification” (above). Stunning. “‘Big data’ has arrived, but big insights have not. The challenge now is to solve new problems
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Culture At Buffer
The Buffer Culture – Version 0.3 from Buffer Econsultancy had a post with eight different takes on company culture. One of them came from Buffer (worth checking out the Etsy one too) which I'd seen before, but it's worth a reminder of
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat". An extraordinary view on work, joy, and how to live rather than exist from Anna Quindlen, taken from a commencement address (above) never given but widely circaulated Lovely: What to
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Google Firestarters 11 – The Strategy is Delivery – The Event
Last week we had Russell Davies, Creative Director at the Government Digital Service and erstwhile Head of Planning at Nike, Wieden and Kennedy and Ogilvy amongst others, speak at our eleventh Google Firestarters event. I’ve long wanted to have Russell at a
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An excellent post from Tim Kastelle on the biggest gap in innovation – doing nothing and doing something Interesting data from mobile analytics company Flurry benchmarking the half life and decay of mobile apps A fascinating piece on the two
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End Every Day With A Beginning
I loved this advice from Todd Henry for staying focused through long-arc projects and remaining less prone to procrastination and the 'assassins of creativity', particularly when we start work at the beginning of the day. Instead of always beginning with the end
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Change is a Process, Not an Event
These are four paintings by the artist Stephen Taylor. They are four of my favourite paintings, and I have copies of them hanging in my living room. I wrote about Stephen here. He spent most of two years in a wheat field in