Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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I spend my days coaching design leaders, helping them improve themselves and their organisations. Managing upwards, meta-communication — the communication around the work vs the work itself — and the importance of showing your work are this week's reflections. Plus a bonus clip of me tandem skydiving.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Start
00:18 Questions as a way of managing up
02:37 Deadlines are not real.
03:28 The importance of ideating and sketching. Show your working!
07:50 Meta-communication
10:23 Why you need to think like a tandem skydiving instructor
11:51 Wrap up

LINKS
- Daniele Catalanotto on communicating about the work: linkedin.com/posts/master-design-hslu_servicedesign-activity-7179349812520062977-3QQa
- Julian Simpson on writing slow: developmenthell.substack.com/p/writing-slowly

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