Resting, vibe coding, futures, Black Mirror.

Scottish mountains, future of decision making, ending well, documentary films, Hemmingway's empathy building exercise.

Testing startup solutions, confidence boosting, Appetite for Innovation, opinionated software.

Weeknotes XIV? The future of marketing, how to hire for innovation, people are the best, morning pages.

Sculpture, dad's 80th, startups, pace layers, learning not to conform.

Why asking and being asked questions can feel so tough, framing, the science of questions, and how to ask better questions.

Weeknotes XXIII. Chasing great writing, kids' classical concerts, more AI experiments.

Weeknotes XXII. Experiments with automating weeknotes.

Intentional designwhether in a bustling office or a tranquil parkcan foster breakthroughs by challenging old narratives and reimagining the way we collaborate.

Creativity in business is generally misunderstood. Its often seen as something risky, uncertain or even frivolous a relatively low value ...

The real question isnt which AI is the best, but how we use it. And there might just be some lessons on how innovation can work in there too.

Charlie and Iain discuss where innovation lost its spark, and the lessons we must learn for its revival.

Weeknotes XXI. Fun beers, classical music, smart cities.

Fortnight notes XX. Delegations, conference in Barcelona, complex systems, formal v informal interviews, more GenAI feedback fun.

Weeknotes XIX. Experiments with AI-enhanced feedback, the importance of experimentation in strategy in a non-linear world.

Weeknotes XVIII. Hustling, website sprucing, coffee drinking, Nothing, vision preaching.

Weeknotes XVII. Pilots, experts, AI, and Lost at twenty.

Generative AI is different from other software tools, so ensuring adoption needs different techniques. I explore the reasons people reject it and offer a few ways to overcome those issues.

Weeknotes XVI. Accessible forms and embracing the cringe.

Weeknotes XV. It's the busiest, most interesting weeks that suffer from a lack of weeknotes! HCID, Papercamp, AI for efficiency and/or empathy, will AI kill SaaS? A personal example, and some photos from a short Valencia trip.

Weeknotes XIV. Performance and Total Work, a very brief history of the British piano manufacturing industry, building the pipeline.

Weeknotes XIII. Now available for freelance design strategy work. Social media, status, and petrification. The Portal Notebook.

Weeknotes XII. Last week of the holidays. Can Tracksmith save track?

Weeknotes XI. Playing in lots of different ways.

Weeknotes X. A holiday in pictures.

Weeknotes IX. Falling down the rabbit hole of the best way to educate kids.

Weeknotes VIII. Decompressing.

Weeknotes VII. Time on my hands.

VI. Workshop vision achieved; garden design - temporal design.

Number 5. Do it however you want, but do it really well, why people don't adopt AI tools, the changing nature of trust, help me with my remote workshop vision.

Weeknotes IV. New ways of working, old ways of leading, and mixing old and new ideas for stickiness.

Weeknotes number three. Behaviour change, motivational interviewing, cultures of growth.

Weeknotes number two! Consumer attitudes to AI in financial services and a team health check survey.

My first Weeknotes.

A list of interventions with examples for people designing ways to change behaviour.

My talk at Miro Distributed '23 on using systems thinking to tackle behaviour change challenges.

Brands are behind a suprising number of our social norms and cultural ideas.

We are about to see an explosion in the pace at which language develops. In this article I explore some signals we're seeing and the implications of machine learning algorithms as audience and as creator.

When we enter an office we retreat from our customers.

Unable to achieve social mobility through the accumulation of wealth, people are demonstrating their class differences through the accumulation of time.

Focusing on the things that are easy to measure stops you from tackling the problems that are critical to solve.

It's become so easy to construct and share an image of your lifestyle that groups now demand 'proof of work' to substantiate the authenticity of their members.

Should you shape your company to a piece of software, or shape the software to your company?

This simple tool can accelerate teaming and help you do the best work of your life.

The quicker we can become a cohesive unit, the quicker we can produce great work.