Exponential Thinking

Understanding the concept and applying it (or trying to!)

Me myself and my mental health

It was early 2012 and I was laying on the floor in one of my mother’s spare bedrooms. The room was being decorated at the time and there was no bed or furniture. I was covered in ash — I smoked heavily back then — and I was continuously crying, I didn’t really know why? What…

Digital Doll

For a while now my good friend John Vary, has been encouraging me to write a blog about my 18 month experience of setting up a digital…

Raising Daughters

Last week to celebrate International Women’s Day a number of panels were organised during the day at work discussing various…

5 golden rules for innovation teams

My name is Gavin Jones and I’ve recently become the Innovation Manager for the John Lewis…

A letter to my 16 year old self

I was recently asked the question- what advice I would give to my 16 year old self? I loved this…

5 things successful innovation teams do

I’ve read a number of articles recently that talked about why internal innovation teams…

A world beyond our own

“So given we’re clearly on a trajectory to have games that are indistinguishable from reality and those games could be played on a set top box or on a PC or whatever and there would be billions of such computers or set top boxes, it would seem to follow the odds we’re in base reality is…

My son will never drive his own car?

My son’s 17th birthday, on earth, will be in the year 2029 and I believe that the only way he…

The future of machines

In one of my previous posts, I talked about the world in 2030, with extracts from a piece of work I had been doing to…