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A practical guide to backcasting: mountains, waypoints, the grid, and the conversation everyone skips.

On the same February day in 1876, two men filed patents for the telephone, hours apart. Which tells you something about genius: the idea was never the rare part. On why the lone-genius story is almost always a team with the room cropped out.

Why clarity matters in messy creative work. We don't need to know every turn, but without a clear destination, good people can spend enormous effort going in the wrong direction.

On why we confuse shipping with value, and the three questions Henry James asked of any work - the last of which almost nobody asks.

On the PO method, lateral thinking, and why creativity was never a gift some people have. It's a device you can pick up off the nearest surface.

I set out to post one small idea about creativity every day for a month. LinkedIn killed it on day six. Here are the thirty that survived — free to read.

Months into a startup doubling year on year, the team was tiring in the messy middle. So I bought posh biscuits and ran a very different kind of workshop. On Appreciative Inquiry, and the discipline of studying success.

On business storytelling, and why facts inform but stories orient.

I discovered the Cornell Note-Taking Method over a decade ago and promptly ignored it. It sounded dull and academic. Then I tried it properly. I have not really stopped since.