Going back to School…
I don't quite know when it happened, but I've found myself falling in love with what writing gives me. It's become less about sharing what I think, and more about discovering what I think.
Starting an 18-month MBA has given me more ideas, books, conversations and perspectives than I could ever hope to hold onto in my head.
So this is where I put all of those ideas in one place, connecting what I'm reading with conversations I've had, experiences I've lived through, and questions I can't quite let go of.
I've given myself permission not to arrive at an answer. Full disclosure, most of the time I won't.
This is simply my way of thinking things through, in public.
A first view from inside
Sainsbury’s has announced thousands of work-experience opportunities for 14- to 24-year-olds, particularly in places with higher youth unemployment.
The initiative is framed in familiar language: opportunity, employability, confidence, exposure to the workplace.
But what interests me is not only whether the young people involved later get jobs.
It is what the experience allows them to see.
Head in the Clouds
What happens to imagination when we become very good at being sensible?
Here is my thinking through The Artist’s Way, Ruha Benjamin, institutional life, ancestors, algorithms and a few rabbit holes.
Exploring what we call realistic, who gets to define it, and whether imagination might have a more serious role in how we think about change than I had previously realised.