Why Helping Begins With Seeing – with Linda Gidlund
Most of us think helping is about having the right answers. We admire people who always seem to know what to say, what advice to give or how to solve a problem. But after talking with Linda Gidlund, I’m no longer convinced that’s where helping begins. Why I invited Linda Gidlund Linda was one of […]
Why Gratitude Replaced Ambition with Dr Patterson Stark
There comes a point in many careers where ambition isn’t enough anymore. You’ve achieved things, built a career, learnt your craft and been rewarded along the way. But what keeps you going after that? In this conversation, Dr Patterson Stark, reflects on the life-threatening experience that changed not only how he practised medicine, but what began to […]
Why This Doctor Stopped Healing Patients Dr Patterson Stark
You’d expect fifty years of experience to make a doctor more confident in his ability to heal people. Instead, it led Dr Patterson Stark to the opposite conclusion, “I realised I couldn’t heal anybody.” Experience Doesn’t Just Add Knowledge We often think experience makes us better because we know more, but Patterson’s story suggests something […]
A Comic Book and Sustainability with Philippe Guichard
For Industrial Designer Philippe Guichard sustainability started before his career began in the unlikely place of a comic book. Since then, it is been a normal part of his design process and how he sees the world. In this excerpt from On Experience, Philippe tells the simple story of how a man and his son in […]
The Things We Learn to See with Philippe Guichard
A few weeks ago, I sat down with Industrial Designer Philippe Guichard for a conversation on experience. I thought we would be talking about design. And we did. But as often happens with these On Experience conversations, the topic gradually shifted. What started as a discussion about products, creativity and culture slowly became a conversation about perception. It […]
Failure Changed My Design Philosophy with Philippe Guichard
When Industrial Designer Philippe Guichard started his career as a designer, success was partly about proving himself. Then he lost everything. In this excerpt from On Experience, Philippe reflects on how losing his business, combined with years of meditation practice, fundamentally changed the way he approaches design, work and life. What emerged wasn’t a better design process. It […]
What Designers Notice with Philippe Guichard
What do designers notice that other people miss? When Industrial Designer Philippe Guichard walks into a room, he isn’t looking at the paintings on the wall. He’s looking at the lights, the switches, the chairs, the proportions… In this excerpt from On Experience, we explore how years of experience reshape attention itself. Because expertise isn’t […]
Your Experience Has a Use-By Date with Mark Molony
A few days after my first conversation with mindfulness teacher Mark Molony, he contacted me with a simple message: “I’ve had some more thoughts.” That message captures something important about the purpose of On Experience. The most meaningful conversations do not end when the recording stops. They continue working on us. New ideas keep coming, distinctions get […]
Experience is Just a Memory with Mark Molony
We often talk about learning from experience. But what if experience isn’t what we think it is? In this excerpt from my On Experience conversation with mindfulness teacher Mark Molony, we explore a surprising idea: Perhaps we don’t carry our experiences forward at all. Perhaps we carry our memories of those experiences. And if memory is […]
What if Your Experience is Outdated With Mark Molony
You’ve spent years building your experience. But what if some of it is quietly becoming less useful? In this excerpt from my On Experience conversation with mindfulness teacher Mark Molony, we explore a question that many experienced professionals rarely ask: Could experience have a use-by date? As the pace of change accelerates, the challenge may not be […]