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…

My mate Jon tweeted me this video of Iain Tate and I rambling on in Romania from 2007. Good times. We were quite hungover, me moreso I think. Iain looks almost exactly the same. I have more hair now. And, underneath, I look older. I imagine. Content, the fight for attention, death of ads, marketing…

Genius Steals has launched a weekly newsletter, building on the glories of and wonderful reception to Rosie's Tuesday Ten.  [Translation: she's graciously letting me get involved in something she worked very hard to build into awesome. ]  As Neil and Colin both pointed out last year, despite there being too much email in the world,…

  Genius Steals is doing some more work with Marriot folllowing our series on the future of travel with Fast Company.  The final piece was a future facing musing on the possible impact of virtual travel. It was one of my favorites, since it let us think about how technology and media and people and…