Pretty much just one shade of grey

Two of the things that have brought me the most joy during lockdown have been the Twitter accounts Bookcase Credibility (‘What you say is not as important as the bookcase behind you’) and Room Rater. Partly inspired by Credibiilty Bookcase, and partly by a tweet I saw during the week, yesterday I re-ordered all of… Continue reading →

On skin in the game

I finished reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder a few weeks ago. Taleb is well-known as the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, about rare and unpredictable outlier events. A number of people have labelled COVID-19 a black swan, something Taleb himself has refuted. The pandemic… Continue reading →

Can a good coach help level the playing field?

I’m the kind of person who re-watches and re-reads the things I love. I’ve seen The Big Short at least five times. Even having seen it that many times, and having Margot Robbie explain sub-prime loans and Anthony Bourdain run through ‘collateralized debt obligations’ (CDOs) I still couldn’t define most of the film’s terms for… Continue reading →

Tom McElligott

On Monday I was introduced to the work of Tom McElligott through Miguel Ferriera’s Creative Samba newsletter. It’s such brilliant advertising. So clever. So witty. It’s the kind of work you look at and wish with all of your being that you could be that good. And even if you couldn’t be that good, that… Continue reading →