Ori Brafman – The Chaos Imperative
The Book Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack, The Chaos Imperative: How Chance and Disruption increase Innovation, Effectiveness and Success, Crown Business, New York, 2013. Ori Brafman Once I’ve read a good book by one author I’m more than likely to sample their next offering. I love Ori Brafman’s earlier book The Starfish and the Spider. […]
My Daily Routine
In response to my previous blog post, I’ve had a few people ask about my routine. For most of my life my routine has been overly based on what I feel like doing. Sometimes, when I’m inspired and have a clear objective this works really, really well. In this frame I can get a lot […]
Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
How Great Minds Work At the moment I’m exploring and experimenting with habits. So when I found Mason Currey’s book called ‘Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration and Get to Work’ I just had to grab it and devour it. It includes short, sharp snapshots of the working routines of over 160 […]
Lessons from Podcasting
What does it take to put a podcast show together? What are the emerging trends for podcasting? And, what tools and work flow do you need to make your show happen? Our Topic This is episode #50 of the Ideas Architect podcast. Yeehar! And, given it’s a milestone issue we thought it would be a […]
The Emotions of Innovation
The emotions of innovation are often either a missing or misunderstood part of the innovation process. The Role of Emotions My book of the year for 2019 was David De Steno’s book, Emotional Success. He is a researcher into our emotions. In Emotional Success, he talks about how our emotions set up our future actions. […]
The Secret to Creating Message Envy
Message Envy As the Ideas Architect I spend a lot of time looking at the communication of ideas. You could say I’m obsessed. I’m constantly checking out signs, advertising, labels, book covers, blogs and more to see what and how they organize and share their message. Mostly, I’m highly critical. I don’t mean negative, I […]
12 Power Habits to Make Your Life Easier
Power Habits Leo Babuta writes one of the most popular blogs on the plaent. And, in his simple, powerful and easy to read book The Power of Less suggests some power habits to start with (the ebook is free so you have no excuses not to grab it!) Plus, I add my comments: Make Your […]
Dave Bruno – The 100 Thing Challenge
Coincidences Do you believe in coincidences? Sometimes life is too weird and you can only wonder at how two odd things can come together in seemingly random ways. The previous book I read was by Sebastian Terry. It was called ‘100 Things’. And, this book, that I’ve just finished is called ‘The 100 Thing Challenge’. […]
Susan Orlean Create Powerful Stories
Susan Orlean is a staff writer at the New Yorker, author of numerous books and author of the Skillshare course ‘Creative Non-Fiction’. In a recent interview with Mitch Joel on the Twist Image podcast (episode #434) she shares the key to creating powerful stories. The key is to be able to switch mindsets from learner […]
Sebastian Terry – 100 Things
When are you most alive? What are the most weird and most cooky things you’ve ever done? Whilst this is one-way to look at Sebastian Terry’s book 100 Things it’s probably not the most useful frame. Let’s try this instead… What are the things that you’ve done in your life that made you feel most […]