Ideas on business, faith & leadership
Weekly thoughts on business, entrepreneurship, faith, marketing, personal growth, social media and technology. Search to find what interests you.
The 2, 4, 6 puzzle that shows how we fool ourselves
Here's a simple puzzle. I have a rule for sets of three numbers, and 2, 4, 6 fits it. Your job is to work out the rule. You can test any three numbers you…
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Is your organisation living in the past?
In 1975, a young engineer at Kodak called Steve Sasson built the world's first portable digital camera. It was roughly the size of a toaster and took 23…
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What can go wrong with AI and why wisdom matters more than ever
Through 2026, AI has rarely been out of the headlines, and not for the flattering reasons. I love this technology. I use it, I write about it, I get genuinely…
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What waiting teaches us that arriving never can
We are not built for waiting. Everything around us is designed to remove it. Same-day delivery, instant messaging, on-demand everything. We have engineered…
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📚 Why I wrote a book you can't read in a weekend
A couple of years ago I made myself a promise. I would write down one idea a week, every week, for a year. Something small. Something I actually believed.…
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Are we reading the temperature or setting it?
The church was never meant to reflect the culture around it. We were meant to shape it. Yet so often we do the opposite. We read the mood of the world, absorb…
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Learning contentment in an age that can't sit still
We check our social and news feeds because something in us is forever asking, "what is happening?" We have built a culture that rewards the question and…
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Living your life in colour
There's a moment from my childhood I've never forgotten. I was about nine, and my family rented our first colour television set from Radio Rentals. Hardly…
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When explaining no longer helps
Most of us spend a great deal of our lives trying to be understood. We choose our words carefully. We rephrase when we sense we've been misread. We come back…
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The Law of the Harvest
In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published the law of gravity. It's been revised by Einstein and refined since, but the underlying principle has held. Step off a…
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All will be well, and other lessons from Julian of Norwich
One of the most quoted lines in English spiritual writing comes from a fourteenth-century woman most people couldn't tell you very much about. All shall be…
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If you're not travelling with us, please leave the train now
Every time I board a train, a few minutes before departure, the same announcement comes over the speakers. "If you're not travelling with us, please leave the…
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