Category: #thinkery
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Small changes make a big difference…
In my experience, opportunity for innovation is hidden in the grubby detail. It’s not obvious at the time but with a little digging it becomes apparent. Small changes can always make a big difference. This Thinkery was captured live during a series of workshops by We Are Open, for Catalyst.
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Make it Digital
“Let’s make it digital! It would be so much more efficient.” Before doing that, let’s think about who we are excluding by making it digital – and how. In my experience digital services are usually skewed towards the needs of the provider, rather than those who depend on the service. This Thinkery was captured live…
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We don’t know what we don’t know
When we think about how to solve a problem we can only really use what we’ve come across before. We don’t know what we don’t know. That’s why it’s useful to be exposed to all sorts of different potential solutions and to ask yourself what can I use that for? This Thinkery was captured live…
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What can you make from a box of wheat pops?
What can’t you make from a box of wheat pops? When you’re trying to solve the problem with technology there’s always a big temptation to start from scratch and build something completely bespoke, but it’s almost always the wrong approach. Better off thinking about what already exists and how it can be reused… This Thinkery…
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Be more Bob…
It’s only in my later years that I’ve gone deep with Bob Dylan – in particular the early stuff, Blood on the Tracks, Desire, The Times They are A-Changin’… It seems to me that the stuff Dylan was calling out then is still so relevant now. I recently tripped over this interview that he gave…
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The Unsharpener
I asked my son to draw me what he wanted for Christmas. Here are the suggestions I got back.
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Add your own time caption…
Features are a poor measure of cleverness. Time careth not for degrees of measurement. I’m sure you can do better!
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Graphic Recording – it’s magic!
A quick guide to graphic recording, and the fact that it’s not actually magic, which you can read about in this Visual Thinkery blog post.
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Black Firday
Calm… and breathe…
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Giving a public talk
I stumbled across this thread on twitter about the confidence required to give a public talk. Some of the responses reminded me of my own moment of clarity shortly before being due to speak: I realised that I was going to enjoy giving the talk. So, I think the roller coaster metaphor is a pretty…
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We really did this…
I really enjoyed tuning into David Benjamin Blower‘s climate crisis lament as he meandered his way through his set in a friend’s lounge – beautiful, melancholy, folkish; I’ve never heard anything quite like it. It’s the first time I’ve listened to a musical journey, and I was again struck by how I listen differently with…
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10 ideas
It’s a case of the cobbler’s shoes – I rarely find the time to think about how to articulate my own process, but this hot-air balloon really helped me out… How to create 10 visual ideas from a 1-hour conversation: https://visualthinkery.com/10-ideas/