A collection of 11 posts
It’s been over a decade since I worked as a property and architecture journalist — but I’m still fascinated by the new Apple campus: It’s not so much the architecture itself, but the interplay between the different buildings,…
Why really bad decisions get made about open plan offices It’s because the people making the decision don’t have to use the space: Let’s start with the fact that the folks often making the space decision are…
There’s no doubt that the thing I miss most about corporate life is the team camaraderie. I haven’t really had a team for three and a half years now. I work largely by myself, and that can be…
Working from home, versus corporate office life: Discipline. Everyone talks about how much discipline you need to work at home. But how much discipline does it take to go to the same strange city office every day, for all the…
Writing is, essentially, a lonely business. It’s just you, a keyboard and as much focus as you can bring to a task. I’m in the midst of a long piece of writing now, for a Brilliant Noise project.…
