The camera comes out at Waterloo
A London commute photo essay on one small rule, a pocket-sized camera with no zoom, and finding room for creative practice inside a working life that rarely slows down.
Photo Essays
Words and images - stories, exploration and insights, often with glorious photos too.
Oslo, with no plan
Four days in Oslo, one day of work, a lot of wandering, a trip out onto the fjord and four films made. On flânerie, attention and what happens when you stop asking a walk to be useful.
Attention Is the Microphone
A trip to Zurich to give a keynote, and what happened when I carried a microphone around the city instead of just my usual camera. On church bells, a man eating a kebab on a bicycle, and why the most productive afternoon of the trip looked, on paper, like doing almost nothing.
Coffee with Konstantinas
A forgotten bottle of suncream, an hour to kill in a Greek taverna, and a retired schoolteacher who never stopped learning. On how to actually study — and why most of what we call studying isn't learning at all.
Berlin: Field Notes on Noticing
Noticing is a wonderful and valuable human skill - it's also a reflection of ourselves.
Why Images Speak Before Words
Images don't argue — they present. A practical essay on why visual thinking is underused at work, and how photographs unlock insights that language alone cannot reach.
The tiny, noisy, perfect Airbnb
I'd avoided starting the podcast for over a decade, then gave it one weekend in a tiny, noisy Airbnb. I planned fifty episodes and recorded twenty-three. On fear, constraint, and why a change of place doesn't change who you are - it just leaves you nowhere to hide.
The Art of Noticing
On noticing as a trainable discipline, how creative practice sharpens it, and the craft of helping others see what you've seen.
Design is how it works
We admire what design looks like and miss what it does. Design isn't how work looks. It's how work works — and it's how ideas become value.