The danger of overlooking psychological creativity What do you think of when you hear the word Innovation? Take a moment. What does it feel like? What does it look like? Is it impressive? Big? Shiny? Does it look like this? Chances are you have a vegetable peeler just like this in your home. It’s also likely…

Diving right in. Here are 8 tools that help me: a) turn my brain on b) get stuff done c) turn my brain off. A Sleep Uniform Common advice (and sense) is to get dressed every day- to shed the pj’s and put on something more ‘work like’. Something that helps me do…

Meet Otis. Otis eats worries. I, like everyone else, sometimes have thoughts that are shaky, nervy and gnaw away in my stomach. But confronting these worries can be difficult because they’re invisible. I spend a lot of my tinker time finding ways to bring mental states out into the physical…

The need for new narratives I nanny two bright eyed, bouncy and big brained kids. A Boy, 8 years old. Let’s call him Charlie. And a Girl, 5 years old. We’ll call her Sarah. I’m going to talk about the stories that Charlie and Sarah are told. Bedtime stories. Chapter…

Dear iPhone 5, I’m with Google Pixel now. And I miss being able to silence you with one flick. I miss how you used to notify me, then leave me alone once I’d had a glance. I miss how you’d share my friends reactions. I miss how you never asked…