Just over 1,000 days ago I hovered over the ENTER button on my keyboard. “Well, here goes nothing!” I said on September 15, 2021, as I sent the first edition of my Substack to the five email addresses (I’d) signed up. Mum, my three kids and me. 1000 days ago...
The next few generations will live their entire lives with 👣 one foot in the Industrial Era, and the other 👣 in the Intelligence Era. If there is one idea I want you to leave with it is this: Strap in. It’s going to be a long while before we settle back into a...
betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown — Fr. Richard Rohr — Over 10,000 people are in a liminal space right now - hunting for new opportunities, searching for a grip on the unfamiliar slippery rock face on a climb they did not choose. Their minds are struggling to...
Hidden messages in logos? "Amazon has the smile, FedEx has the arrow. What message is hidden in your logo?" You know, that secret message that you cannot unsee once you know about it? I thought a lot about messaging this past weekend while I was participating in Nate Kadlac’s Approachable Design course. This...
Keep iterating until you find what works for you It was as if an invisible thread from the vibrant yellows and iridescent blues reeled me in. Van Gogh has been tugging at my heart ever since I walked past the Irises in the Garden in the Impressionist gallery at the Met (Metropolitan...
Three lessons we can learn from knitting. My goddaughter came over to visit. As we sat together, she brought out a mass of yellow wool. “Some of the needles have fallen. Others have shifted,” she said, delicately cradling the precious garment in her hands. Her mother passed away a few months ago...
“blah, blah, blah … race for the conservative party leadership heats up … blah, blah, blah, … record temperatures in the South East …. blah, blah, blah … and later in the newscast the first photos from the James Webb telescope including some from the Karena nebula” … I snapped to...
I believe My Manifesto for a Moral Revolution part 2 This is part II of my manifesto written in response to the question posed by Jacqueline Novogratz and her Acumen team in the class Path of Moral Leadership. What is the “impossible” you dare to imagine as “possible”? What is the story about the...
My Manifesto for a Moral Revolution part 1 What is the “impossible” you dare to imagine as “possible”? What is the story about the future or an alternate reality your manifesto will tell? What will help you sustain and thrive throughout this work? Jacqueline Novogratz asks these questions in the Acumen class Path of...
Tying together FoW, Climate Action & COVID What if COVID is the dress rehearsal, a road map for how we as humans can handle the environmental crisis? We have now shown that nations can quickly agree on a consistent course of action, humans can make sacrifices for the common good. New Normal...