Tag: Week 2

Week 2 posts

Day 015 | Week 2 summary

It’s been just over two weeks since I started this journey and my daily blog posts and I thought that every Sunday I’ll try to do a bit of a summary of the week. What I’ve learnt and what’s to come.

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Book cover for 'Information is beautiful'

Day 014 | Beautiful work

Last year some time I read a post about how we should be spending less time browsing other people’s [creative] work and more time doing the type of work that we find brilliant. One week into my competitor research that post has floated to the top of my mind.

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Take a risk photo from venosdale on Flickr

Day 013 | Can I work please?

It’s Friday evening and I’m about to go meet an old colleague for a drink. I’m thrilled it’s the weekend. The lie ins, our morning runs, the long breakfasts with the day’s first coffee – that’s something I look forward to all week. But, I’m also really excited about working

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Remember

Day 012 | Worth remembering

Every product and service that we use exist because someone decided they were going to do it. Every company that we work for has started as an idea and then taken a physical form when a decision was made to make it happen.

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Daisy

Day 011 | To blog or not to blog

Yesterday on the train back from Manchester I told my BBC colleague about my commitment to blog every day during 2012 about this. He asked the question I asked myself when I decided to write something every day – Won’t it take away from doing the actual work itself?

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Day 010 | A non-linear process

Doing the research and populating the deck it’s not a linear process, and I didn’t intend it to be. Even when I’m concentrating on one part I’ll fall over an article, find a nice example, or get an idea, and just as much as my thoughts jump from one to

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Pros and cons

Day 009 | Pros & cons

Yesterday I mentioned that the go ahead for a potential next phase of the idea I’m currently exploring hangs on the outcome of the research I’m working on. Something similar exists already and that is scary for two reasons.

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Why you should write every day

You probably think you have nothing to write about but once you start it gets hard to stop. Honestly. Writing is an incredibly important skill at all levels. By writing every day you reflect on things in a different and clearer way and you become better at expressing yourself. If you haven’t tried writing every day, give it a try for 30 days to begin with. I did it every day of 2012. Seth Godin has done it for years and swears by it.