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The Hundreds — JVW #2

Read 100 pages, Write 100 Words, Make for 100 minutes

READING: For a pecha kucha talk I did at the London Design Festival, I was looking into ‘sight and design’, so reread some of Unflattening, and went looking for my copy of…

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What it looks like is how it works

Reflections on sight and design

As part of this week’s London Design Festival, I was invited to take part in The Design Museum’s series of Pecha Kucha talks in the Auditorium at 100% Design at Olympia. The talks were about…

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Ideas like butterflies

The dance of a collector

A conference; a place to confer, to exchange views. An ecosystem of perspectives, each dependent on the existence of the others, demonstrably or not.

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The Hundreds — JVW#1

Read 100 pages, Write 100 Words, Make for 100 minutes

**This is the first write-up of ‘The Hundreds’ — we decided we should blast out a quick progress update every week on how we’ve done.

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The Hundreds

Short Sharp Circuits Of Working Practice

We’re going to try a new thing at Smithery as an ongoing part of how we work. We’re calling it The Hundreds.

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Talking about Talking

Six things I find useful for speaking at conferences

Last week, I gave a talk on Metastrategy at The Conference in Malmö. It was the ‘third act’ in a series of talks I’ve given in the last year, and I was very pleased (as much as you ever can be with your own…

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Growing Out, Not Growing Up

Five years of Smithery, making big changes in small steps, and the story of the desk plant I bought when I first started work.

In February of the year 2000, my friend Emma and I went to Marks & Spencer down by Moorgate to buy plants for our desks. We’d…

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How To Organise Your Library

Building a systemic view of what you know you know,
and what you don’t……

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Making Things People Want > Making People Want Things

An exploration of how to think about the balance…

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A Sonic Screwdriver For Thinking

Why tools might be more useful than techniques

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