The time we met Eric Ries over Margaritas… In 2011 at SxSW in Austin, TX we realised we were sitting next to our big hero at the time, Eric Ries — author of The Lean Start-up. It was early evening and we were sitting outside drinking Margaritas at the Lustre Pearl. Eric had not yet published The Lean…

Scott Galloway writes about the changing mood, and predicts hard times for ‘The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse’ — From No Mercy/ No Malice: The Worm Has Turned by Scott Galloway The worm has turned against big tech, and it’s overdue. The tipping point was the recent revelation that Mark Zuckerberg had unwittingly become Vladimir Putin’s bitch. …

Do you remember the Flash movie Epic 2014 (or the updated version Epic 2015), which did the rounds back in 2004/5? If you worked in digital or media at that time the chances are that someone sent a link around to wherever you were working, via email (this was before…

I did a short talk at Neil Perkin’s most recent Google Firestarters soirée a couple of weeks ago.

If you visit http://www.madebymany.com you’ll notice that we’ve updated the way we talk about what we do. …

Over a relatively short space of time, digital technology has contributed so much to homo sapiens’ long history of hyperbolic over-claim. If, like me, you were introduced to “the information super-highway” via a dial-up connection you’ll know what I mean. Since then, you may also have experienced the crushing disappointment…

And why making is fact, and everything else is opinion — A little over a week ago I posted The Problem With Design Thinking and I wanted to follow up with a piece that explains a bit more about the full-stack approach I described at a high level, as we practice it here at Made by Many. The response I received…

Yesterday we welcomed the on- and offline magic school Abracademy into our studio for the next few months as a ‘start-up in residence’. What the hell are we up to? — The simple answer is “embedded magicians” — and having a bunch of incredibly talented magicians around the place is absolutely frikkin’ awesome. They’ve already taught us how to make pens disappear ffs! We think it will add an enchanting new dimension to our studio culture and we’re keen to experiment…