Observations — Month One

This is the ongoing story of Matthew Knight, who is trying to figure out his next career step should be, spending his notice period exploring, questioning, pondering and musing.

New technology is the murderer of longevity.

By training, I'm a coder. The early stages of my career I spent programming. I'll be the first to admit, I was a pretty bad coder, so I migrated to be a manager, technical director and then strategist, but they all shared the same core skillset - 1)…

Play, ikigai, soul-searching and a CV.

This month, I celebrate my fifth and final anniversary at Carat — I’ve decided to move on, and have started a six month project to, not only find a new opportunity…

Six months on.. what did I learn?

So, if you’ve been following my story over the past six months, you’ll have noticed that:

Meetings Suck. Booking meeting rooms suck even more.

Meeting room systems and processes rarely seem to work in an intelligent way, there has to be a smarter approach.

Observations – No. 4 and thanks for all the fish.

I’m coming to the end of the first phase of my six…

The 100 — five years on (part one).

This is a short story about how giving people total and utter freedom with a simple brief can create wonderful things, an experiment in slow creativity, and how the…

Is it rubbish, just hidden, both or neither?

Side projects are great fun — but what if no-one ever…

How do introverts play trumpet?

Note: I’m republishing this article on Medium, something I wrote back on my own blog at the end of last…