God I love holidays. I went to Nice and had a fabulous time (even popped over to Marseille to spend the new year with friends). I hope you also enjoyed yourself. As a reminder, I started Sunday Scraps in 2018 as a way to clear my open tabs. Best to think of these as digital… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #108
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Sunday Scraps #107
Last one of the year and it’s definitely influenced by the Mediterranean (where I’ve decamped to for a week). I visited Villa Arson for the first time today and it’s doing what the Barbican should do with art education / even if Marty Supreme is basically a film about toxic masculinity, the soundtrack is amazing… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #107
Sunday Scraps #106
The critique of the Vanity Fair White House photoshoot is on point / I’m late to the party but Articles of Interest is an excellent podcast about clothes which led me down a rabbit hole where I found out Levi’s created ‘casual fridays’ and a mysterious death in the 1940s / I’m not sure we… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #106
On showing your teeth
I read the Oxfam news with interest this week. I was thinking about my own experience as the CEO of a small studio, reporting to CEOs in three jobs and as a Chair and a trustee. What we want from our leaders on paper rarely turns out to be what we want in practice and… Continue reading On showing your teeth
Sunday Scraps #105
Last week was a bit emosh, but hey, the show must go on. I am not reassured by HSBC closing a 160 year old management training programme / I was really pleased to find out a bit more about Adrienne Górska who helped Eileen Gray understand architecture / to think people used to name their… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #105
End of year review
Thanks to Prof. Dr. Molly Steenson for initiating this habit back in 2005. What did you do in 2025 that you’d never done before? Acted instead of waiting for things to improve. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I didn’t make any. Did anyone close to you give… Continue reading End of year review
Sunday Scraps #104
Had a pretty arty week since my last post and can really recommend the video installation at Artangel, the Diane Arbus and Joseph Yaeger shows in Soho and the Kerry James Marshall at the RA. Just be prepared to sell a kidney to pay for it. / I refuse to link to the press release… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #104
Sunday Scraps #103
Time marches on. It’s my birthday next month so I tend to rush around to ‘get things done’ before all my numbers change. With that in mind, this is a longer list than usual as there are many tabs to close. I had totally forgotten about IBM’s Watson but it’s so funny to read it… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #103
Sunday Scraps #102
Getting into Alan Watts is one of the more acceptable ways to have a mid-life crisis / enclothed cognition is an interesting phenomenon / the Japanese have a standard size for sports towels so it’s a shame we can’t find more over here / it’s always useful to compare calendars / I don’t understand why… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #102
Bring your own patient record (life in an age of cybercrime)
(This is relatively personal but I’m sure you won’t hold that against me. If you don’t like thinking about medical things, press the back button now). Right. I was diagnosed with Fibroadenoma and had surgery in my early 20s. So when I found a new lump in my breast last month I was… Continue reading Bring your own patient record (life in an age of cybercrime)