Try Different →
Just over 2 years ago I was mid way through a 12 day solo trek over the Western Himalayas in Ladakh, the far north of India. Something happened that’s stuck with me ever since.
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🎵 This & That #20 (Asia Special) →
It’s more than difficult to explain what it’s like when your senses collide with Asia; the sounds, the smells, the sights. I sampled sounds from India’s roaring cities, to chanting in Bangladesh, nature’s orchestra in Vietnam, to the bells of Himalayan horses as a way to
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Lucky Man →
A renewed appreciation for life, helmets and the wonderful people of India 🇮🇳
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Stealing Time for My Own Mind →
Surprises, agonies and insights from a 10 day Vipassana meditation in Chennai, India.
Read moreHow young are you? →
For the last few days I've been hanging with Andreas from Sweden. This is a photo of him pulling a silly face. He is a big, kind, larger than life character. He plays the guitar [https://instagram.com/p/BNKVhHLjs3R/], takes jaw-dropping photos [https://instagram.com/p/BLHITdOj1zp/] and wears
Read moreObama Noodles →
Trekked over to the other side of Hanoi to Bún chả Hương Liên — where Obama and Joe Biden came for Bún Chả (noodles, greens and bbq pork strips in a f-u-c-k-i-n-g sensational soup). The lady pictured top left came to sit opposite me. She spoke exceptionally good English. She pointed
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Tom & Tom in Koh Rong →
📋🏃🏽 written on the move, typos and all -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I just got back from Koh Rong – an island off of the south west coast of Cambodia - and I'm en route to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. It's comical how far some of the coach drivers stretch the definition of
Read moreLook around: Costs are everywhere →
It’s easy to rest on the assumption that costs are only monetary. In product design, this misses an important point — costs are everywhere: * Waiting for a webpage to load is a cost. * Typing in your card details is a cost. * Figuring out whether to trust a company you’ve
Read moreWe used Intercom to add £100,000s of marketplace investments at Fruitful—here’s how →
Onboarding customers to your new product is tricky. Onboarding customers to a new financial product is really tricky. For a mountain of security and regulatory reasons you’re required to collect and validate a towering number of data points. Of course, for each additional data point that we had to
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Keep peddling until you find the right problem →
Back in August 1972, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority introduced the late Massimo Vignelli’s new map of the subway system. New Yorkers were furious. Complaints came flooding in [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/arts/design/the-subway-map-that-rattled-new-yorkers.html?_r=1] : > “Stations seemed to be in the wrong
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The Other Side of the Sunset →
Admittedly it’s taken us longer than it should have, but here’s the story behind Fruitful and how we raised over £500,000 of venture funding, built and shipped a marketplace that attracted £1.8million of lending, captured the minds of recognised experts in the field as well as
Read moreFounders: Avoid Death by Assumption →
> “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” — Isaac Asimov [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16667.Isaac_Asimov] When you’re building a company, your ability to make good assumptions can be the difference
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Saying Something Memorable →
It should come as no surprise: The best way to make a point, teach something or sell a product is to tell stories. Here’s one of my favourite storytellers: When I start preparing for a talk, I often struggle to think of stories that help explain the ‘thing’ I
Read more♫ New Mix: This & That #18 →
Managed to find some time to flick through my music and produce a new mix. Tinged with autumn leaves, this mix brings together some of my favourite melodic house tracks featuring the likes of Guy J [https://soundcloud.com/guy-j], Vincenzo [http://www.anjunadeep.com/vincenzo-the-vanishing-years/], Radiohead and the very
Read moreThis is how you package consumer goods →
Yesterday I was in the market for some plughole unblocker. We’ve moved places recently and I forgot to put this useful little thing [http://www.oxo.com/products/cleaning-laundry/bathroom-cleaning/shower-stall-drain-protector] in our shower. So I head into Tesco and — eventually — I find the section for bleaches and plughole
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