Text of a talk for Experian UK’s “every Mind” Network for Mental Health Awareness Week. You can download slides here. You can find my book Our Dreams Make Different Shapes here. Key points Living with mental illness can leave us least lonely when we are most alone, and most lonely…

This is the full text of a paper for the Conference “Worlds Ending — Ending Worlds” at the University of Heidelberg’s Centre for Apocalypse and Post Apocalypse Studies. I’m based in the Humanities Division at Oxford University. This means that in 2025 I, like thousands of my colleagues, will move…

How do we enable, encourage, and empower people to engage with a cause? That for me is the fundamental wicked problem we face as a world. I say that because unless we can crack it, there is no point in even attempting to solve any other problem. …

This is World Creativity and Innovation Week. To mark that, I wanted to write something short and practical about my approach to creativity and how to embed it in an organization to fuel innovation. For me creativity is, very simply, doing new things. And it is the most important practice…

I’ve spent a lot of time arguing that micro frictions should be one of the top priorities for society to tackle — a wicked problem whose time has come. But what does that mean? What would a solution to the problem of micro frictions look like? I want to talk…

(text of a talk given at Personal Investment Management and Financial Advice Association’s 2022 Virtual Fest) Let me ask you something. Why do you think so many talks start with a question that seems incredibly simple? …

This Monday sees the introduction of the requirement for online merchants in the UK to operate a form of“strong customer authentication” (SCA). Originally planned for before the pandemic, the implementation has been delayed by years to allow merchants the chance to get ready. …

I wrote a little while back about the massive impact we could make on many people’s lives by focusing our attention on tackling micro frictions. What I didn’t talk about so much is exactly what kind of things I mean. So that’s what I want to look at now. What…

Disabled people experience more low level frictions in life than others. …