Doctor's Note Issue 33 - It's not business, it's personal
In this issue: People work is the work / The Four Seasons of Design and Life / Podcasts / Leadership Atelier / Book Corner / The Linkhole
Early Bird Discounts to SDN Masterclass and Product Design Week
Hi folks, I’m breaking out of the usual Doctor’s Note format because I have two discount codes for events I am involved in that are time sensitive. I’ll be...
Doctor's Note - Issue 32 - Coaching Reflections
In this issue: 100 Coachees / Coaching Reflections / Power of Ten / Guff of the Month / Book Corner / The Linkhole Welcome to the latest Doctor's Note. If...
Doctor's Note - Issue 31 - On Mediocrity
Doctor's Note - Issue 31 - On Mediocrity In this issue: Mediocrity and the State of Design / Power of Ten / Defensive Calendaring / Guff of the Month / Book...
Doctor's Note - Ping!
Ping! Dolphins pinging. Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Pexels. Dear Doctor's Note Reader, Hi! Hello! It's lovely to have you here again. If everything has gone to...
Leaving Substack for Buttondown
In the wake of Substrack's decision not to moderate Nazi content on the platform, I'm leaving.
Doctor's Note – Issue 30 – Busywork is Junk Food
In this issue: Busywork is Junk Food / Enabling vs Leading / Going Down the YouTube / Power of Ten / Book Corner / The Linkhole
Doctor's Note – Issue 29 – What's Your Motivation?
In this issue: What's your motivation? / Guff of the Week / Power of Ten / Courses & Training / Book Corner / The Linkhole
Doctor's Note – Issue 28 – Navigating the Leadership Dip - The Book
In this issue: Navigating the Leadership Dip - the book/ The Demise of Wise / Guff of the Week / Power of Ten / Book Corner / The Linkhole
Doctor's Note - Issue 27 - Fear & Anxiety in Stakeholderland
In this issue: Fear & Anxiety in Stakeholderland / Guff of the Week / Power of Ten / A New Website & Workshop Facilitation Course / Book Corner / The Linkhole
Doctor's Note - Issue 26 - Meta and the paradox of VR
In this issue: Meta and the paradox of VR / 50% off Endineering / Power of Ten / Book Corner / The Linkhole
Doctor's Note - Issue 25 - The Greed for Speed
In this issue: The Greed for Speed / Shut up and do something / Guff of the Week / Power of Ten / Online Courses / The Linkhole / Book Corner
Doctor’s Note - Issue 24 - Output Is Input
In this issue: Output Is Input / Guff of the Week / Power of Ten / The Linkhole / Book Corner
Doctor's Note - Issue 23 - Why Your Product Is A Service
In this issue: New Online Courses / Products vs Services / Power of Ten / The Linkhole / Book Corner
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Doctor’s Note – Issue 22 – Time Sink
In this issue: Your time is precious / Higher Education in trouble / Navigating the Leadership Dip talk / Power of Ten / Never Not International Women’s Day / The Linkhole / Book Corner
Doctor’s Note – Issue 21 – Escaping your personal escape room
In this issue: Escaping your personal escape room / desirable, feasible, desirable’s translation problem / podcast gratitude / The Linkhole / Book Corner
Doctor’s Note – Issue 20 - Finding meaning and purpose in life and work.
In this issue: Finding purpose and meaning in life and work / Work should not be miserable / The Linkhole / Book Corner
Doctor's Note – Issue 20 – Janky Services
In this issue: Understanding services as games with janky controls / New Power of Ten episodes / Coaching spot available / Antirom reunited apart / The Linkhole / Book Corner
Doctor’s Note – Issue 19 - The Shape of You
In this issue: New home for Power of Ten / Finding the shape of you / Boiling the Ocean redux / How to Future discount / Book Corner / The Linkhole
Doctor’s Note – Issue 18 – Sometimes you have to boil the ocean
In this issue: My online courses / Anti-racism is a marathon, not a sprint / Boiling the Ocean / Beyond the Double Diamond / The Linkhole / Book Corner
Doctor’s Note — Issue 17 – You’re not as dumb as you think you are.
In this issue: Imposter Syndrome vs Dunning-Kruger / Design Leadership as slow-motion facilitation / Design Politics online and on sale / The Linkhole / Book Corner
Doctor’s Note — Issue 16 – The Design Leadership Dip
In this issue: Imposter Syndrome and the Design Leadership Dip / Social Distancing for Ideas / The Linkhole / Books /
Doctor’s Note — Issue 15 – We Are Family. Or Not.
In this issue: Teams learning from families learning from teams / The Linkhole
Doctor's Note Feedback
Hi folks, I hope you’re all safe and sound at this time. Just a quick note seeking some feedback from you. I’ve been publishing Doctor’s Note for about 16...
Doctor’s Note – Issue 14 – Expanding Bounded Rationality
In this issue: Systems thinking failure / Ideas lying around / Seeing change creates change / The Linkhole / Books
Doctor's Note – Issue 13 – Toilet Paper Madness
In this issue: A Tipping Point For Remote Working And Learning / Toilet Paper Madness / What’s Really Holding Women Back / The Linkhole / Books
Doctor’s Note – Issue 12 – Organisational Amnesia
In this issue: Organisational amnesia / Sonos out of tune / The Irishman / Design Politics 2020 / The Linkhole
Doctor’s Note – Issue 11 – Ideas from the past may be closer than they appear
In this issue: Silicon Valley’s failure to get real / Revisiting The Californian Ideology / Futurists and the past / Triumph of the Nerds / The Linkhole / Books / Teaching
Doctor’s Note - Issue 10 - Endings and Beginnings
‘Twas the night before Christmas.
Doctor's Note - Issue 9 - Malls and Avatars
We seem to be reliving the 90s and 00s in some kind of second life.
Doctor's Note - Issue 8 - Design in the age of synthetic realities
Design in the age of synthetic realities It's been a while since my last newsletter, mainly because I travelled to UX Australia to run a Storytelling &...
Doctor’s Note - Issue 7 - Collaboration
Learning from Ed Sheeran I went to see Ed Sheeran live the other day. I can assure that’s not a sentence I thought I would be writing. At the start of his...
Doctor's Note – Issue 6 – Innovation = Conversation + Doing
Doctor's Note – Issue 6 – Innovation = Conversation + Doing Photo by Dominik Scythe on Unsplash It's been a few weeks since my last Doctor's Note—it called...
Doctor's Note — Issue 5 — Complex vs Complicated
Service Designers have earned a justifiable reputation for wanting to boil the ocean, sometimes to the frustration of clients and managers who want to break...
Doctor's Note – Issue 4 – Relative Values
Doctor's Note – Issue 4 – Relative Values This week's Doctor's Note is all about value versus values. That extra 's' makes all the difference. History...
Doctor's Note - Issue 3 - The Box Is All There Is
AI getting sneakyRecently, I wrote about the games that AI’s play, gaming training environments as logical responses to the reward and assessment stimuli...
Doctor's Note – Issue 2 – Reading Habits
Photo by Will van Wingerden on Unsplash I have a distinct childhood memory, queuing up at the railway crossing that was always a feature of my school...
Doctor's Note – Issue 1 – Changing Culture One Meeting at a Time
Doctor's Note – Issue 1 Welcome to Doctor's Note, an irregular newsletter containing a mix of longer form essays like this one and short musing on design,...