Embracing seasonality - we're not built for 100% all year
Since moving to Sweden 18 months ago, one of the biggest shifts I’ve noticed, compared to life in the UK, is how deeply seasonal life feels here. It feels worth embracing.
Topic
leadership
A collection of 8 issues
This week's best things
A wall of sound, a spectacular website celebrating Andrei Sakharov, the importance of word choices, Kotter's dual operating system, Swedish perspectives on AI in exhibitions, an AI playbook for charities, Fyre Festival 2, a final essay from SGS and Owais Lightwala, a survey on digital failure.
This week's best things
AI-generated subtitles, and an AI 'tar pit', some things about TikTok, overwork in the arts, walking-focused interaction, Dropbox's brand guidelines, subscription business models, Nokia's design archive, automation in UK retail, dealing with side chats in meetings,
This week's best things
New things from the Rijksmuseum, a heuristic framework for content, more on the limitations of genAI, a Japanese farmer creating techno bangers, a call for leaders to explore different ways of thinking and working, a look at the impact of 2024's tech trends, and an interesting Radiohead cover.
This week's best things
Watershed's 5 guiding principles which turned a deficit into profit, the invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat, a new audio-only social media app, new ways of engaging with artists, synthetic social networks, Instagram's ad revenues, AI girlfriends, and rats driving cars.
Is curiosity a leadership superpower?
Examining the shifts in mindset and approach required to discover new, and better, ways of doing things.
Self-sabotage. Why don't we prioritise outcomes over outputs and process?
A culture of low trust, and a lack of clarity, has lead to an overemphasis on process and outputs. This is harming all of us that work in the cultural sector.
Digital career paths in the cultural sector are broken
A 'clogged and leaky' pipeline is leading to a serious and worring brain drain, and has done for over a decade now