I'm going to this conference on the 23rd. If you're going too say hello, I'll be the shy one loitering at the back. I'll also be hanging around London in the afternoon if anyone wants coffee and stuff.

Good talk by Alex Bogusky here. I found the quote, "Experience is only useful if the future is the same as the past".  Russell's picture, usual doodahs apply   I think there's a lot to be said for this. It's extremely unnerving to work with brand managers who still operate as if it's 1995 and Web 2.0 and stuff never…

My beautiful new mug went missing this morning. As some have noted, I'm an angry mess of carbs, unvented nervous energy and the need to swim a very long way very fast.  So wasn't going to take it laying down. Thankfully, common sense pulled the all-users back from def com three: Dear all Sorry to…

It's A level results today. A day when my swotty nephew got three A's and a B. Well played Michael, very well played. It's also a day for gratuitous images of 18 year old girls bouncing around far more than is really necessary for the media. As observed here.

I'm currently grappling with Drive by Daniel H Pink. It's yes another book about what motivates people, but what sets it apart is that it avoids wild theory and draws upon four decades of scientific research. In other words, proper rigour. I raced through it at first, but it's in my bag and I keep…

I hate British motorway services. I haven't driven enough in other counties to know if this is something peculiar to this country, but they are truly dreadful. At this time of year, with families driving off for a summer holiday, they pretty much hold them to ransom. You either pack a picnic (which isn't a…

Working on ghd was as close to working on a Nike or an Apple as it gets if you work outside if London in the UK. One of the problems on working on a brands like that is that the industry at large always thinks it knows what made that particular brand great. I always felt working on…

There was a guy I used to work with, he was an account manager. He was a little old for his title and did sometimes wonder why there hadn't been any discussions with how he could get to Account Director level. Now there were some developmental reasons for this, little things, stuff he could work…