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.

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…

Observations — №3

This isn’t a crossroads, there are no longer any junctions. In fact, where we’re…

Exercise. Literal and creative.

Aimless wandering and its role in curiosity.