Saying goodbye

I want to congratulate you on passing this course and achieving QTS in this uniquely difficult and strange year. None … More

The art of noticing, and then creating, a conversation with Seth Godin

We need to re-think marketing as a story that either does or does not resonate with us. Do … More

This blog would be nothing without its readers. Thank you to everyone who stopped by, made a comment or a … More

Here is a quotation from Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception that I have been meditating on for a while now. I have … More

Since I decided to leave Twitter and abscond from Facebook I have been reminded of some of the guiding principles … More

Recently I have been reading the exquisite prose of Janna Malamud Smith, in her book-length meditation on creativity: An Absorbing Errand: … More

Yesterday I listened to a dialogue between Debbie Millman and Seth Godin on art-making, resistance, anxiety, how the internet has changed … More

It all started with two remarks, one by a friend, the other by a stranger at work. ß The friend’s … More

My main memory of watching The West Wing is the way Martin Sheen would wrap up discussions with his staff by … More

I began the year with two books which helped me slow down and breathe: Christian McEwen’s World Enough and Time and … More

This is Jörn Cann. He was my ward doctor at the haematology unit where I was treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma … More

I treated myself to Seth Godin‘s newish book The Icarus Deception recently. It is both dense and light, profound and easy to … More