photo essay
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.
Noticing is a wonderful and valuable human skill - it's also a reflection of ourselves.
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.
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.
On noticing as a trainable discipline, how creative practice sharpens it, and the craft of helping others see what you've seen.
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.