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Fast Travel 14 Aug 2013 | 12:45 pm
While traveling around, I'm writing a series of pieces for Fast Company on the future of traveling around, as part of a branded content series called #TravelBrilliantly. I'm the 'creativity' corresp....
Welcome To Our Digital State 8 Jul 2013 | 03:21 pm
This is quite exciting. Our book has been published! I say our - Simon Pont put the whole thing together and kindly asked me to contribute the first chatper. Here's the HuffPo piece I wrote about i...
The Future Isn't What It Used To Be 11 Jun 2013 | 08:50 am
is a companion piece I wrote for B&T to the talk I'm giving in Sydney at MadWeek on July 15th, which looks awesome. If you are going to be there do come and say hi. You can read it over...
This is Water 20 May 2013 | 02:17 am
This is Water. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life [Kindle Edition] by David Foster Wallace, is one of my all time favorite pieces of w...
On the Road 15 May 2013 | 03:53 am
Hello! After 5 lovely years in New York, I recently left the city and my job, sold my furniture and my stake in the agency we started, started an innovation practice, got engaged and went out on the r...
I Love Your Work 3 May 2013 | 11:58 am
I remember opening the door to my old apartment, in a converted church building on 16th Street, about 3 years ago and seeing it was Jonathan Harris. My friend Ela had asked if he could stay, of course...
Present Shock 17 Apr 2013 | 09:33 pm
Thanks to an invitation from Mr and Mrs Schiller, I got to go to a launch party for Douglas Rushkoff's new book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now [Kindle Edition] a week or two ago at Meet at...
Studying Cases 10 Apr 2013 | 08:30 pm
I was on my way to the One Club to help judge the finalists of the digital Young Ones awards last night, and, as is sometimes the way of things, the universe used coincidence to tell me something... "...
The Story of The Memory of The Experience 3 Apr 2013 | 01:57 am
A while back I gave a talk at the Google Think Travel conference. It was a super fun gig. I posted the deck and some thoughts before. People seemed to like it and asked about the presentation itself. ...
Advertising's Benevolent Dictators: Ogilvy 19 Mar 2013 | 10:36 pm
is the name of a book from the 1908s I was given as a gift after a speaking engagement [thanks!]. The title comes from the tension required in those who run advertising agencies: to rule their word mu...
