Two pieces of wisdom that will ruin your work if you follow them too literally. The first is: "the customer is always right." The second is "people don't know what they want until they see it." Henry Ford supposedly said "if I'
Last week the invitation was to anthropoligise your life, weeks #2 was about thinking in terms of the experience you want others to have. This week is about owning your narrative. As Nora Ephron said... Everyone in this group has a natural instinct to build something that others will really
Just like artists join residencies to get out of their daily context so their work can take shape, I’ve created an online residency for business owners and creators to do the same for their businesses, side projects and creations waiting to come through! My world is full of people
This is for anyone who went from employee to entrepreneur and didn't realise your salary isn’t the only thing you need to replace when you leave your job. In 2021, I received a well timed synchronous email from an old boss asking if I would come work
Last week I talked about creative brains not thinking in straight lines. They think in images and connections, one idea activates another, and they can hold many threads at once. This is a superpower in creation mode — designing, problem solving, making art, building offers. But the moment you have to
This is for anyone who over explains or blanks when it comes to talking about themselves or their work. Someone asks "what do you do" and your brain opens a million tabs and whatever you say never feels quite right. Most creative founders & artists don’t think
Human beings love to create intricate systems of rules and stories to make sense of their existence. That's what I'm doing with "World Building". I'm trying to make sense of why some people are able to create businesses that everyone loves AND
Hey everyone, recording from Thursday is here. On the call I shared that I really want to get into a rhythm of writing more and actually sharing it... I have been sitting on doing this for about 3 months (despite doing lots of writing, I'm just not hitting
If there is one feeling I'm familiar with... it's this: Knowing what I'm supposed to do and still not doing it. And most of the time, I don’t give myself a hard time about it, but a couple of months ago I did
This week was Session 2 of 5 in The Hidden Art of World Building – a live monthly workshop where we build our worlds in real time. These are small, intimate sessions designed for people who are actively building, you can join any time. Everyone on the World Builder Studio plan
Link to recording Link to slides Biird case study World builder GPTs World builder “ingredients & map” Session 002: Finding your first citizen 18th Sept
This series reverse engineers the worlds we naturally want to be part of. It's a study of World Builders; the people who create things we want to be part of, not things we need to be sold on. Each episode maps how they do it and who they
This is a series about World Builders – for World Builders and those who want to become them. BIIRD Case Study0:00/1293.6533331× ⇢ What is this series and why create it? I've been studying creators, movements and businesses that people seem to naturally gravitate towards. You know the
A couple of years ago, I decided I wanted to wake up every day feeling excited by work. I wasn't necessarily hating work, but just had this underlying feeling of "meh" when I had to start the day. And I knew it wasn't going