1. Philosophical Foundations Western thinking is inherently binary because that was the contract we made with logic, way back in the Hellenistic day. Logic is an incredibly useful tool but its foundation insist that something can be, or can not be, but can't be both. [The principle of consistency] This is because this is how…

Nothing is New Forver is a piece I wrote for the LIA AWARDS annual after judging last year's NEW category – about the aspirations for NEW, and the trends emerging from the batch of win. It's over on Medium…with some case studies and that. 

BeerSphere is back!  What's BeerSphere you ask?  BeerSphere was a thing we used to do, where people who mostly hung out with each other online on blogs and that, would meet up IRL and drink beer!  It's super fun. If you like INTERNET, BEER, NICE PEOPLE + ADS AND THAT – you will especially like…

Thanks to Neil Perkin / Only Dead Fish, I gave a talk last week at Google UK for a firestarter event. It was really fun.  The brief was to be provocative on the topic of Designing For The Future.  As I pointed out at the beginning, I'm not a designer. The other two speakers were…

I feel a bit like I'm cheating. On my blogging platform. Typepad has been my loyal companion for almost a decade. Then, we put the Genius Steals site together in WordPress.  Then a shiny new younger model catches my eye. Beautiful, everyone is talking about it, and so easy to interface with… So I've been…

Seenapse is a new platform designed to help inspire new, non-obvious combinations. As I may have mentioned before, I believe ideas are a certain kind of thing. I think that Genius Steals, that ideas are new combinations, that originality is a myth, and that the best, most interesting, most attention earning ideas, exist at the…

Is an interview I did with the very nice Petar at GapJumpers about my circuitous working life, that for convenience I sometimes confusingly refer to as a 'career', and digital strategy and training and loyalty and penetration and how to pick where to work based on how much you want to wear trainers.  You can…

A nice chap called Dimitris who was in a class of students I ranted at in 2011 [and apparently enjoyed it, which is nice] pinged me this interview that I did at the ADC Kongress last year for a magazine called Page, that covers creative stuff.  It's about focusing on the present, why collaboration is…

or How to Make Your Customers Like You:        Lovely. And is it really so hard? 

[post title inspired by the cartoon Tripping the Rift]  The nice people at Media In Canada asked me to write the inaugural piece of a new series they are running on innovative media platforms. I wrote a thing about the possibilities represented by the Facebook purchase of Oculus Rift.  Science has long had a tendency…