I always associated running with being sweaty, out of breath, injuries, and expensive sneakers. In the last eight months, I have started running; I now run about 60–80km a month. For context, I used to run 0km a month. …

If you have never heard of Robert Elms I would recommend you check out his radio show on BBC Radio London. He’s a music journalist and his show is all about the city of London and his love of music. For years it has been a favorite of mine. Robert…

Summer 2018. The football World Cup has kicked off in Russia and this is the starting point for my son Luca’s football obsession. Up until now, he has shown no interest in the sport but for some reason, my enthusiasm and the nature of the international tournament catches his imagination. …

I’ve always been a big advocate and early adopter of online collaborative tools such as google docs, Figma, and Mural. Yet, I have often found that co-workers are less excited about them. …

You make your own luck. Have you ever been given that advice — while in the same breath it’s applied to some titan of industry who came from nothing to rule the business world? Let’s take a look at that idea. “If Bezos and his team had waited a few…

Sustainable creativity is a workshop I have given several times over the last three months to a wide range of groups and organizations. The idea is to show people a system to generate ideas and in doing so allow them to sustain their creativity for the rest of their…

The intention-based design approach — Making an omelet could be easier. There are thousands of online videos and cookbooks to help you with a task like this, yet people still find it difficult to start or to know exactly what to do. While it sounds like a simple task, the tools and information you are…

Since the May 25th murder of George Floyd, and the weeks-long protests that it (and so much other violence) has sparked, there has been an awakening in American culture to the long history of injustice that African Americans have endured. And this has led people to ask a series of…

Let’s imagine a situation where we take 50% of the earth’s population and ignore their financial, health, work, and safety needs, and this ignorance is not accidental but is instead systemic. Now imagine that this is so deep-rooted that when a global research study speaks with members of this 50%…