Hi folks. This one’s a video I shot spontaneously the other day, prompted by the bees flitting between flowers in my garden. It made me think of web users flitting between sites. We’re all quite skittish and protective of our time and attention, so if your site gives us alarm signals we won’t hang around. […]
Archives for July 2016
‘What do I want to do?’ Make the early steps easy on yourself
Are you in that spaceĀ of wondering what to do with your life, or maybe making a big change looking for something better? That can lead to wonderful things. It can also lead to long periods of uncertainty and beating yourself up. I was propelled on to that journey five years ago when my mum died. […]
Politics wandering in the story desert
I’ve become more aware of story in the last few years. And it’s been ever clearer that recent UK national politics is all about story. The Conservatives constructed a mythology and hammered it in with brutish repetition. Labour failed to build a distinctive story that people wanted to follow. The Liberal Democrats spoke about a […]
The foreground fallacy (video)
When we’re having conversations about change, we can assume the other person is in an active-focus rational or emotional mode like we are. But often they’re not. And that mismatch of modes can lead to frustration and conflict. We need to understand that a lot of people, a lot of the time, are in a […]