A three-hour workday because of AI

In the 1930s, the economist John Maynard Keynes suggested that in a hundred years’ time, we’d all be working 15-hour work weeks or a 3-hour workday because of advances in productivity. Keynes predicted that...

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17 questions that unlock your personal values

My previous article discussed how values could make or break your career. In this follow-up article, I will cover identifying your values. First of all, it’s worth reflecting on how our values develop. Your...

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How clarity over values can make or break your career

When embarking on a career transition or considering what career to pursue, I believe assessing your values and strengths is the first foundational step. In this article, I’ll outline the power clarity over your...

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Poking the bear

Poking the bear

 May 2021, Swindon, Dent Zoom Call I’m on a zoom call with fifty-odd other entrepreneurs enjoying a business accelerator. It’s an excellent experience, but something isn’t sitting right.

Finding your calling with Venn diagrams

Finding your calling with Venn diagrams

For the maths minded like me. There is nothing like a good Venn Diagram to help understanding. A Venn is used to describe how concepts intersect, described below via the wonderful medium of pancakes!

Richard Parsons

What failing at school taught me

Winter 1993, Basingstoke, UK. I did ok at secondary school but generally didn’t pay enough attention and drifted along. I ended up with mediocre grades, just enough to scrape into A’ Levels.

Listening to signals

Listening to signals

Easter 2005. Tignes, France. It’s April 2005 and I’m skiing with friends in the French Alps. I’ve just left my steady job at a software company to stumble into entrepreneurship. There wasn’t any great plan or well thought out strategy, I had a few irons in fires here and there, but mostly I was just […]

If not now, when?

If not now, when?

January, 1984. Calcot, Reading.  I’m 8 years old walking home from school with my friend Jamie.  We’re walking along a pathway that cuts through our housing estate. The sort of path that passes by everyone’s back fence.  There is an open bit of scrubland along the path and I find a Tesco bag in the […]

Confessions of a recovering workaholic

Confessions of a recovering workaholic

I’m now in my third week of taking time out. I’ve carved out two and a half days of my working week to do other stuff. There has been the odd small encroachment when “work” has bled into my “discovery” time, but overall, I’ve stuck to it and I’m loving it. Thanks to my amazing […]

How to avoid failure and criticism

How to avoid failure and criticism

Firstly, thank you to everyone who provided feedback to my first blog post. As a brand new blog, I was expecting to be blogging into a black hole for a while, so I was pleasantly surprised that finding an itch to scratch resonated with your own experiences.

Finding an itch to scratch

Finding an itch to scratch

Avalon Beach, 1997 I can see it in my mind’s eye as though it was yesterday. I’m sitting alone in the dunes overlooking the sea in a small town called Avalon in the northern beaches of Sydney, Australia.

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

This awesome lecture from Randy Pausch has clocked up quite a few views on Youtube (13 million at the time of writing). It’s over an hour long but well worth it. Some nuggets that I love from the late Randy Pausch, who is delivering this lecture with 10 tumours in his liver and a life […]