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Letter from a Steward
I met Hardeep Kaur (or H) through a The STEPS Collective event in London that Chris Daniel shared to the Long…
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Paired prompting
I was talking to Tracey Camilleri yesterday about workplace design in the the age of LLMs, and then Chris Noessel…
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Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts
in technologySometimes a little bit of wordplay goes a long way. This was inspired by Simon Wardley’s post on LinkedIn earlier,…
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Text and Context: When code won’t load
in technologyI was never a coder, per se. I just grew up in an era where if you wanted anything interesting…
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Shearing layers and square metres
Workplace Design shouldn’t be a paint by numbers job. But there’s one number that interests me in particular. A recent…
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Futures Through Design – 2026
I am delighted to announce that Futures Through Design, the three-day course I designed and led with with Rob Phillips…
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More buildings about people and songs
I went to a brilliant event last night at Arup in London. After a talk from Michael Pawlyn for the…
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Zuck has a performance problem
in technologyMark Zuckerberg has trouble performing. And I’m not just talking about his ongoing, stilted stage appearances at announcement events (Steve…
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Deep Time Walk with The STEPS Collective
Last Friday (12th Sept), Pins Brown and Sam Jarman led a Deep Time Walk for The STEPS Collective around Devil’s…
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Organisational Surface Area
Calling Arno Penzias I want to talk about Arnos Penzias and his idea about the Surface Area of an organisation.…
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Creating place-based regenerative explorations
I received a really interesting email from Radko Kovachev at the Institute for Circular Economy in Bulgaria, asking about how…
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Cognitive Debt
“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea…