Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Your Time is a Non Renewable Resource

Your Time is a Non Renewable Resource

This week’s Coaching Reflections video is all about valuing your time. Your time is the fossil fuels of your life. You don’t know how much is left …

AI is a double polluter

AI is a double polluter

I’ve come to think of AI as a double polluter. Not only are the energy and water costs enormous for most of the unnecessary use cases, but the output goes …

Asking For What You Want

Asking For What You Want

When we using indirect, hedging language and people please, we can actually end up being selfish by accident, because we’re asking them to do the …

The Four Seasons of Design

The Four Seasons of Design

It’s important to build in a cadence of difference paces in your day, week, project and year. Without it, you risk burning out. I like to think of this as …

Design as wise guide versus hero

Design as wise guide versus hero

Are you the hero or the wise guide in the story of your work and leadership? This week I’m teaching a masterclass on storytelling, pitching and getting …

The Ripple Effect of Your Impact

The Ripple Effect of Your Impact

How do you think about your impact as a leader? Is it the bottom line of the business? The culture? Or is it on the people around you more individually? In this …

It's all about the people

It's all about the people

What is the real work at work? I have very few coaching sessions about the actual design work. It’s all about people. In this week’s coaching …