Doctor's Note

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

The complex is not complicated

I wrote a piece for my Doctor’s Note newsletter about the difference between the complex and the complicated. The central point is that if we don’t …

Introducing the Power of Ten podcast

I’ve podcasted on and off for a while and always enjoyed it, first with Core77 in the mid-2000s, last year as a regular host of a Fjord Fika (new season …

Value versus Values

That extra ’s’ makes all the difference. Whilst we are talking about the dysfunctional desire to reduce the world to bottom-line numbers, there was …

Design Maturity

Leah Buley, Director Design Education at InVision, and a wider team from InVision just published the Design Maturity Model. I very much preferred this to …

History Repeating

This week’s Doctor’s Note is all about value versus values. That extra ’s’ makes all the difference. Here’s the first part of it. …

The Box Is All There Is

AI getting sneaky Recently, I wrote about the games that AI’s play, gaming training environments as logical responses to the reward and assessment stimuli they …

Reading Habits

The original of this article was published on Medium. I have a distinct childhood memory, queuing up at the railway crossing that was always a feature of my …